Opinion

Prominent individuals look at the Covid-19 scenario and visualize the way forward for the nation. –EDITOR The world's largest COVID-19 lockdown would likely end by May 17. India has so far reported more than 60,000 cases. India did close the international borders very early and...

Ann Linde & Arancha González Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care, at school, or in caring for the elderly. In many countries, women perform these tasks...

Prominent individuals look at the Covid-19 scenario and visualize the way forward for the nation. –EDITOR Science fiction writer Kim Stanley opines that what was felt impossible becomes thinkable and this would start rewriting our imaginations amidst the outbreak of Covid-19. Many, including WHO, have...

Sanit Kumar Rout COVID-19 has paralysed economic activities across the globe. The growth prospects for India are gloomy and the rating agencies predict it to be falling to zero level this fiscal. Indian states will observe varied impacts of the downturn based on their resilience...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Governments across the world are today borrowing huge amounts, increasing spending and trying to bring their economies up and running in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. This strategy is based on the belief that the present crisis will be of a short...

Prominent individuals participating in this continuing series here visualize how things will be in the post-Covid and post-lockdown scenario          —EDITOR Social distancing or lockdowns as a means of fighting a pandemic can never be an answer in Indian conditions. The reasons are many, but...

Arvind Subramanian The Covid-19 crisis augurs three watersheds: the end of Europe's integration project, the end of a united and functional America, and the end of the implicit social compact between the Chinese state and its citizens. As a result, all three powers will emerge...

Kailash Satyarthi In the space of just a few months, Covid-19 has changed our world beyond recognition. Wherever one lives, one feels a palpable sense of fear. Yet we do not all respond to fear in the same way. Though we all instinctively want to...

In this continuing series, prominent individuals look at the future, after the lockdown and after Covid-19. --EDITOR When I was invited to write about life in a post-Covid era by Editor of OrissaPOST, I was bemused because it would be an impossible exercise yet i...

Aaron Bernstein The Covid-19 crisis has brought economies around the world to a standstill. Huge swaths of manufacturing have been idled, and sectors such as aviation and tourism are largely shuttered. Amid all the economic ruin, some have pointed to a supposed silver lining: cleaner...