Tag: Muslims in India
The Thin Red Line
The problem now is that the health sector needs massive resources to cope with the virus and ramp up its capacity for the future and the unemployed and poor need sustained support. The government is mustering resources but the Prime Minister is right when he says that there has to be a ‘nuanced lockdown’ to permit a bare minimum level of economic activity so that some people start working for their living to reduce the enormous burden on the state
Right and Wrong
India dolls itself up to welcome President Trump it will ingratiate itself deeper into the US-Israel nexus and no doubt move further into the US embrace. China’s economic downturn in the wake of the virus attack will spark discussion on future containment policies. Nothing can, however, hide the fact that India is getting increasingly isolated and facing an economic decline. The present Indian obsession with Pakistan and its refusal to have bilateral talks belittles it.
ROOM FOR DISSENT
By FS Aijazuddin
The name game & room for dissent
Renaming Aurangzeb Road or secularising Allahabad as Prayagraj, Faizabad as Ayodhya and Ahmedabad to Karnavati are...