Opinion

Ajit Ranade The official stock of foodgrains with the Food Corporation of India stood at 77.7 million tonnes as on March 1. This included 27.5 million tonnes of wheat and 50.2 million tonnes of rice. The rice estimate includes a significant quantity of unmilled paddy....

Samir Mathur COVID-19’s direct impact on children would be seen in transmission of the infection to children and consequent health problems leading to morbidity. It is widely being held that children are safe from infection because of their young age and the implied inherently strong...

Melvin Durai Parents are used to receiving a variety of child-related notifications and texts on their cellphones, from reminders about dental appointments to alerts about their children spending too much time online. In a few years, parents may see another notification: "Change your baby's diaper!"...

Kaushik Basu We know from history the devastation caused by the Great Depression of the 1930s, and know from experience the Great Recession following the 2008 global financial crisis. But we have never seen anything like the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic will leave deep psychological...

Debashish Mitra Twenty years ago, management guru the late CK Prahalad espoused the concept of selling to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’. This led to the emergence of the ‘sachet pack’. The revolutionary concept changed the face of consumer goods and services in India, and...

Debashish Mitra March 26, the day after the national lockdown, the country reported 657 cases of coronavirus and 12 deaths. On the hand, across the world around 470,000, 114,000 people recovered, while 21,000 deaths were reported.  Sixteen days into national the lockdown, India reported 6725...

Sudha Devi Nayak ‘Suncatcher’ is the coming of age story of two boys in the throes of adolescence. The book by internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan writer Romesh Gunesekera, whose first book, ‘Reef’, featured in the Booker shortlist, 1994, is against the backdrop of disarray in...

Ganga Narayan Rath “Anna Chinta Chamatkarah,” goes on Sanskrit expression. “Vubhukshitah Kim Na Karoti Papam,” goes another. Loosely translated they mean ‘A hungry stomach knows no bound’ and ‘A hungry person can commit any sin’ respectively. India’s working class, currently under a lockdown, appears to...

Guru Prasad Mohanta The Indian Prime Minister, while addressing the G20 leaders’ extraordinary virtual summit on COVID–19, called for sharing of technical knowhow, ensuring free and open access to medical research for the benefit of mankind. This should be the mantra for new globalisation and...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra CoVID-19 has triggered both colossal health risks to the public as well as economic danger. The shock to the global economy from CoVID-19 has been both fast and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the great depression...