361 BLUNDER: Why did we not stock up oxygen and have more beds for the second wave? PTI
Rajesh Ramachandran
Whether we call ourselves a failed society or a failed state, the bottomline is that we keep failing. Telltale marks of pyres on Ghaziabad footpaths or pictures of melting furnaces of electric crematoria in Gujarat or the long queue of ambulances first outside hospitals and later at crematoria gates or the fudged numbers of mortality all around there has been no respite from the dance of death. Not getting infected or not dying is only a matter of chance and not science because our pre-modern politicians, Election Commission of India (ECI) and the governments have long since abandoned reason.
Without caste census, OBCs will forever be denied social justice
P.N. Sankaran chronicles the debate on caste census, argues that it is indeed feasible and shows how every effort to ensure representation in the State of all historically oppressed communities is bound to fail without such a census
On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on a petition seeking caste-based census in the country. The petition said that such a census would address the lack of data needed to provide adequate reservations in jobs and admissions to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC). The proforma for the 2021 census has been announced, the petition said, adding it has 32 columns with headers Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc but has no mention of the OBCs. It sought urgent court intervention to introduce such a proforma for the 2021 census that has a column for the OBCs. Inadequat
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1 FOR ALL: India canât afford to quibble over who wants or who needs the vaccine. Reuters
Rajesh Ramachandran
The Covid spike may soon touch 1.5 lakh cases a day, and as India sets new world records in the rate and volume of infections, we are again told to sit at home between 9 pm and 6 am, as if the virus steps out only during the curfew hours. Instead of bringing the entire economy to a crashing halt yet again and leaving people without livelihoods, the Central and state governments ought to redraw their strategies to ensure that we do not repeat the mistakes of 2020. First of all, our rulers should understand that livelihoods are as important as lives. It is a desperate statement to make, but the only true one in these times of a national crisis caused by an unprecedented surge of infections. All our governmental measures so far have been tailored keeping the primacy of lives over livelihoods, wantonly destroying jobs and earnings as if we could afford it. Yet, th
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Today, being on the cloud is inevitable. But cloud security remains a cause of concern for most organizations
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