Covid-19 vaccines have been a powerful tool in addressing the fear and panic caused by the pandemic. Unfortunately, they are increasingly being used to create a smokescreen of safety, to evade public accountability on the public health concerns around them. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), the apex regulator for all pharmaceuticals, has been used to hurriedly
The High Court of Karnataka has delivered a judgement in Resham vs State of Karnataka that is singularly lacking in empathy. The petitioners before the court included the young Muslim women from a government PU college in Udupi who had been arbitrarily shut out of their own college by their own teachers in a video witnessed by people around the world.
More than 75 years ago, not a long period in historical terms, the Indian National Congress was the symbol of India’s hard-fought struggle for Independence and of national pride, prestige and aspirations. The Congress party ruled the country for decades thereafter without much opposition and managed to keep the country on a progressive trajectory, however slow and bumpy.
Sacking one of his Generals for losing a crucial battle in the civil war out of sheer stupidity when it seemed victory was almost assured, Abraham Lincoln reportedly said, “He has managed to wring one last spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Sacking one of his Generals for losing a crucial battle in the civil war out of sheer stupidity when it seemed victory was almost assured, Abraham Lincoln reportedly said, “He has managed to wring one last spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory.”