With the surge in the number of Covid-19 cases over the past few days in several districts of Maharashtra as well as in the city of Mumbai, stringent measures are making a comeback.
BMC municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Thursday announced stricter rules against those flouting Covid-19 appropriate behaviour. He held a video conference with all additional municipal commissioners, zonal joint commissioners, deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners of all ward offices along with concerned. He reviewed the situation and gave necessary directives to all concerned MCGM machineries to be extra vigilant.
Chahal said the spread of coronavirus in the city is still under control in comparison to June-July 2020, yet, with the number of cases on the rise the system needs to be vigilant. “As public life returns to normalcy it becomes all the more important for citizens to follow all Covid-prevention norms, especially since the threat of coronavirus is not over yet. It is impo
Workshop on “Covid-19 Management: Experience, Good Practices and Way Forward” with 10 neighbouring countries
GN Bureau | February 18, 2021
PM Modi addressing the Workshop on ‘COVID-19 Management: Experience, Good Practices and Way Forward’ with 10 Neighboring Countries, through video conferencing, in New Delhi.
The spirit of collaboration among nations in meeting the challenge of Covid-19 has been a valuable take-away from the pandemic, prime minister Narendra Modi said Thursday, as he suggested creating a special visa scheme for doctors and nurses, so that they can travel quickly during health emergencies on the request of the receiving country.
The PM was addressing a workshop on “Covid-19 Management: Experience, Good Practices and Way Forward” with health leaders, experts and officials of 10 neighbouring countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka along with Indian officials and experts.
Renowned scholar Veena Das reads the quotidian in the light of philosophical writings of Wittgenstein and Cavell
Veena Das | February 17, 2021
Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein
By Veena Das
Orient BlackSwan, 410 pages, Rs 1,350
Veena Das, a well-known theorist, has launched a fascinating project: studying moral philosophy of ordinary people in their ordinary day-to-day lives, in the light of the writings of select philosophers – especially Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell. What is unique here is the bottoms-up approach: instead of extracting generalities in tune with philosophical theories, Das does philosophy in field work itself.
‘Textures of the Ordinary’, then, is an amalgamation, explorations of both the barely noticed events around us as well as some of the recent chapters in ethical theories. Here is an extract from the new work: