COVID-19 and Religious Belief
By Inamul Haq
COVID-19 is spreading fast in the world, while hate and religious bigotry is spreading even faster.
Is India ready to protect its elderly population from the lockdown due to COVID-19?
By Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Yesterday my mother remarked, “Not corona, the housework will kill me.”
India: The Insecure Republic
By Vinod Kottayil Kalidasan and Tanya Goyal
One thing that is common in the series of actions taken by Modi-led NDA government is the lack of examination of socio-economic impact the policies will have, which is quintessential before imposing any nationwide policy.
Three Poems by Pooja Ugrani
By Pooja Ugrani
I can draw a C on your bum
when you stand sideways.
It was after you said this
that I started using
three limp layers
to drown a C of flesh.
The Politics of Affect and Corona Quarantine
By Aamir Qayoom
The restless souls of people who died laugh at the futility of huge investments in arms and weapons which could have been channelized for spaces of care.
The Soul of India abides in the Sole of India
By Umang Kumar
Cities come up, all glass and steel, roads are built to connect malls and offices, markets spring up to provide necessities for the residents of the city but the people who painstakingly assemble the city lego-block by lego-block and keep it running, are its forgotten architects.
Poem: COVID-19
By Ananya S Guha
We shake in fear, morning
afternoon, evening
Only night gives respite, but shadows
walk across dreams.
COVID-19: A Doom Messenger or a Game Changer?
By Anam
Consequently, the expanding sky-scrappers along with high population density have thrown open a field ideally conducive for such pandemic as well as other natural disasters.
Poem: An old man in the forest
By Yanis Iqbal
He didn’t want to see the wretched people,
Haunted by hunger,
Dying with a beggar’s bowl
Outside the rich man’s castle.
Tablighi Jamaat needs to be forgiven in such critical times
By Abu Osama
In Tablighi Jamaat vocabulary, this disease can be surmounted with contemplation, meditation, chanting and offering additional prayers. All they have been trying to do is to heal and pacify the panic-stricken people psychologically.
The Story of Shaheen Bagh
By Omer Fayaz
While the government urged people to stay indoors to prevent the pandemic from spreading, the visuals of policemen supervising the erasure of anti-CAA graffiti did the rounds on social media.
Collation of Global Health Data: A Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
By Jitamanyu Sahoo & Syed Mujtaba Hussain
For the sake of resilience in Global Health Data the World Health Organization has designed a SOLIDARITY trial which is a robust data sharing study to suppress and control the current pandemic as well as to provide data for the most effective treatment for our fight against COVID-19.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 