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:
Lesson from Brisbane: Invest in human capital
Just like the Indian cricket team if we can bring in people from different cultures, regions, languages and classes into the mainstream of economic development then nobody can stop the 21st century genuinely becoming the Indian century.
Alok Ranjan | February 15, 2021
(image courtesy: Twitter/BCCI)
We have just witnessed a historic Test match and series win where an Indian team plagued with injuries to all its top bowlers and without their captain and best batsman, Virat Kohli, achieved a convincing win at Brisbane in Australia. Tremendous euphoria has greeted this historic win and it can be said that this will usher an era of dominance of world cricket by India. The victory has a great lesson for India as a nation and illuminates the path that India should take if this century has to become the Indian century.
BJP national spokesperson says, farmers used as proxy by politically motivated elements
GN Bureau | February 13, 2021
BJP National spokesperson Shazia Ilmi has come down heavily on critics of prime minister Narendra Modi and said that a false narrative is being set to discredit the government, belittling the PM and claiming that democratic institutions are in grave danger.
“Truth cannot be expunged. We finally know Deep Sidhu had been sent there and there was a nefarious design behind farmers’ tractor rally,” said Ilmi. She was responding to a question if the BJP has evidence to support its claims that farmers agitation has been propelled by an international conspiracy.