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.
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.
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.
Mental illness and isolation in times of COVID-19
By Rimli Bhattacharya
To be precise a neurotically affected person (like me) gets affected by powerful emotions as we are always on our own, busy dealing with our thoughts of the ghastly consequences of this pandemic.
Poetry: Covidiots
By Moinak Dutta
Death?
Well, we live it,
Lockdown or no lockdown,
Covid 19 or no Covid.
Covid-19: Is India prepared enough?
By Javaid Bashir Mir
Despite improvements in healthcare access and quality, India lags way behind its BRICS peers such as Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa on the HAQ index. This index was based on 32 causes of death considered preventable with effective medical care.
Life in the Time of Corona
By Rashid Askari
We have to adopt ‘an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure’ policy for Bangladesh because the curative measures available in Bangladesh are not adequate for our needs.
Can India’s mazdoor survive the Covid-19 lockdown?
By Soma Mandal
Covid-19 lockdown should not be turned into an aggressive political exercise to promote the agenda of nationalism. The instance of permanent lockdown without addressing the state’s inadequacy to provide food and health services exemplify overdetermination of the government in various aspects.
Articulating the inarticulate, listening, and slowing down in times of the CAA and COVID-19
By Tonima Singh
It feels that the earth is protesting against the fascist and the capitalist ways of life to slow down, to not rush and step back, literally and metaphorically. And it is in these times of bearing witness to the social isolation and slowdown that it becomes clearer that others are experiencing a similar loss of past self and the emergence of a new one.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 