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Father of Bihar Girl Who Rode 1,200 km on Cycle With Him During Lockdown Dies Sixteen-year-old Jyoti Paswan s father Mohan was 45 years old and was well until the morning of May 31, his family said. Jyoti Paswan with her father, Mohan, and mother, Phulo. Photo: Umesh Kumar Ray Rights15 hours ago Patna: The father of the girl who had made headlines last year after cycling 1200 kilometres to their Bihar village with him riding pillion during the lockdown passed away on the morning of May 31. Sixteen-year-old Jyoti Paswan’s father, Mohan, was 45 years old. Their village is in Bihar’s Darbhanga.  His wife Phulo Devi told ....
COVID-19 and Indiaâs New Viral Necropolitics The pandemic has devastated the lives of Indians across classes and castes but will it help shape a new intersectional approach to public health and politics? A man walks past burning pyres with people who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the banks of the river Ganges at Garhmukteshwar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, May 6, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui In Necropolitics (2019), Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe describes the power of âliberalâ democracies â which never addressed or abandoned their founding violence of dispossession, exploitation, and extraction â to give death and withhold death as the sovereign rite of regulating life. This ânecropowerâ is exercised not only through spectacular, if occasional, forms of terror but also by inflicting âsmall dosesâ of death on people living âat the edge of lifeâ. ....