With online registration, a vaccination centre in Dharavi is empty
MUMBAI: Ghanshyam Mishra was among millions who welcomed ‘Tika Utsav,’ a celebration of the mass vaccination programme (April 11-April 14) PM Modi announced. But reality hit home hard last week when Mishra, a rickshaw driver, took a day off from work to queue up outside a vaccination centre, only to be told that he could not get the jab because he was not registered on the CoWin app. He came later, after his college-going son who owns a smartphone booked a slot for him.
Mishra, 50, originally from Jaunpur (UP), can be called privileged among his peers as his family owns at least one smartphone and could get the first dose. Thousands of other poor migrants, daily wagers, domestic help and semi-literate workers at construction sites have not got vaccinated yet because they lack access to smartphones.
The influx of millions of refugees is the result of a brutal nuclear war between China and Russia that destroyed both countries and devastated the world economy, a scenario that occurs early in MacWha’s book, Eastern Horizons, leading to the fallout globally literally and otherwise. While the economic crisis and political opportunism flows from a war that has fundamentally changed society, one can read the book and see parallels to the impact of, and reactions to, the current COVID-19 pandemic that has also changed society as we know it. This despite the fact MacWha was writing Eastern Horizons long before the novel coronavirus upended our way of life. That is was published in the midst of the pandemic, in August 2020, only adds to its relevance to today’s global situation.
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MUMBAI: BMC on Monday filed an FIR at N M Joshi Marg police station against a restaurant and bar at Kamala Mills Compound (Lower Parel) for flouting Covid-19 norms. BMC said teams were on the lookout for violators. Assistant municipal commissioner (G South ward) Sharad Ughade said, “We filed an FIR and served YOUnion a show-cause notice, asking why its licence should not be suspended. We are writing to all restaurants in the area to ensure they follow Covid-appropriate behaviour.”
BJP MLA Ashish Shelar said despite CM Uddhav Thackeray’s orders, pubs in his son, Aaditya’s constituency (Worli) were operational beyond midnight. A video clip was circulated by Raj Thackeray-led MNS’s former corporator Santosh Dhuri alleging that norms were being flouted in Worli. Dhuri told TOI he was shocked to see youngsters crowding the pub on Sunday. “Is Covid restricted to koliwadas and chawls of Worli? Why should BMC not act against such spaces, where rules are no