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Over 180 Signatories Urge Opposition Parties to Step up Action to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
The open letter expresses dismay over the Centre s disregard towards suggestions from the opposition parties to work together and fight the unprecedented situation India is facing.
A COVID-19 patient on oxygen support waits to be admitted at Patna Medical College and Hospital, during the second wave of coronavirus in Patna, Friday, May 14, 2021. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: As many as 187 eminent academics, activists, journalists, authors, filmmakers and professionals from across the world have signed a letter requesting opposition parties to step upÂ
constructive action to combat the situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic.Â
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Time is a great healer, they say. On January 29, many in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar stood witness to a moment of rapprochement that could inflect India’s political history or not. It’s vital to offer that caveat right at the outset. For, the unseen undercurrents of our politics do not necessarily submit to neat surface syllogisms. Contrary pulls make up our political psychology to such an extent that its effects often seem irrational. And yet, when leaders of two communities Jats and Muslims came together to address a mahapanchayat in Sisauli village, no one could be faulted for seeing in that event a kind of tectonic shift. The ground itself moving.but back to its original, organic whole. Towards a suture, towards healing.
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Delhi Hundreds of thousands of India’s farmers have been camping on the roads leading to New Delhi in an unprecedented protest that has lasted more than two months but has not been given its proportional share of attention, either from the media or the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for its merit and legitimacy. The farmers have demanded that the federal government withdraw three new agricultural laws that were passed in a tearing hurry in Parliament last September, which the farmers insist will ruin them while crony businessmen make gains.
Surinder S Jodhka writes:
At the time of independence, Indian agriculture was an example of everything that was wrong with the economy of an “underdeveloped” country. Even when nearly three-fourths of its working population worked on its vast farmlands, served by an extensive spread of rivers and a wide range of climatic conditions, India could not produce enough food for its population. The newly independent country had to import a considerable amount of foodgrains from the “developed” countries of the First World, with the United States being the chief supplier. While the food-surplus countries of the Western world eagerly agreed to sell, or even give away food as aid, their supplies came with “conditions,” unfavourable to a nation trying to restore its lost dignity after a long history of colonisation.