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India needs an all-party national government to tackle Covid, the greatest threat since Independence


India needs an all-party national government to tackle Covid, the greatest threat since Independence
May 24, 2021, 8:34 AM IST
A journalist who has lived all over India and is now based in Bangalore
The British won World War Two not just because of the leadership of Winston Churchill (whose greatest fan is the UK PM, Boris Johnson)  but because of the national all-party government comprising the ruling Conservbative Party and their ideological opponents in the Labour Party.  While Churchill had dynamic ministers like the newspaper proprietor Lord Beaverbrook as his minister for aircraft production, the senior ministers in his war cabinet included the Labour leader Clement Attlee (as deputy prime minister) and Ernest Bevin (as minister for labour and national services) . It was only after the war was over and won, that elections were held. ....

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India's Covid-19 catastrophe is rooted in its democratic backsliding


India’s democratic backsliding: Reading Amartya Sen in Covid times
The medical crisis is not divorced from the issue of liberties, of the independence of media and ultimately of democracy.
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A coronavirus patient waits outside Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in New Delhi to get admitted.
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Few scholars have left more of a mark in the field of development economics than Amartya Sen. Awarded the 1998 Nobel prize in economic science, Sen’s work reoriented mainstream economic thought and diagnosis on issues such as collective decision-making, welfare economics, measuring poverty, gender inequality and social justice.
Amongst his more popular works, Sen is well-regarded for his work on famine and for explaining what causes them. Just as we associate Adam Smith with the phrase “invisible hand”, Joseph Schumpeter with “creative destruction”, Sen is famous for his assertation that “famines do ....

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