We are pleased to announce the MediaNama session on “Powers of the Data Protection Authority”, on the second day of the Decoding India’s Data Protection Bill virtual event, January 20, 2021. We’ll be in conversation with Renuka Sane, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; Alok Prasanna Kumar, Co-founder and Team […]
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I called a friend in Mumbai, Shashank Joshi, who is a member of his state’s
COVID-19 task force. “Our I.C.U.s are nearly empty,” he told me. Joshi is a doctor with seemingly infinite reserves of energy: a stethoscope perpetually dangling across his chest, he has spent the past several months carrouselling among slums, hospitals, and government offices, coördinating the state’s response. Early last spring, when the first serious spread of
COVID-19 was reported in India, Joshi jumped into action. Dharavi, in Mumbai, is Asia’s largest slum: a million residents live in shanties, some packed so closely together that they can hear their neighbors’ snores at night. When I visited it a few years ago, open drains were spilling water onto crowded lanes. (The next monsoon season, three young boys fell into the drains and died.) The tin roofs of the houses overlapped one another like fish scales; a roadside tap dripped a brown fluid that passed for potable water. When a toddler