Priya Sahgal

COVID-19: WHAT NEXT FOR INDIA?

May 19, 2021

The positivity rate of Covid infections seems to be falling in some of our metros thanks to the lockdown — although while Delhi and Mumbai are improving, Chennai and Bengaluru are seeing a rising graph. The villages tell an even more alarming story as the virus spreads like wildfire in areas...

LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP

May 12, 2021

If there is one thing the second surge of the Covid outbreak has thrown up it is questions around the current leadership style. As the WHO’s Soumya Swaminathan said, what is needed is strong leadership that is based on science and data – not grandstanding and rhetorical flourishes. The fact...

THE POLITICS OF COVID-19

April 21, 2021

Finally, the Kumbh Mela has been called off and the politicians too (most of them) have decided to address virtual rallies instead of crowded ones, but the damage has been done. Were these measures too late? Both on the ground in terms of the spreading Covid surge, and I don’t...

TIME TO CALL OFF RALLIES AND MASS RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS

April 17, 2021

I am sure this is the one irony that has not escaped any citizen of India. As state after state announces lockdowns and curfews, we are all staring at the picture of the kumbh Mela going on in full swing, violating all norms of social distancing. Not to mention the...

OUR CONFUSED RESPONSE TO COVID-19

April 14, 2021

On the one hand we have our television screens full of visuals of crowded elections rallies and even more crowded gatherings at the Kumbh Mela, some masked, some otherwise. On the other hand, we are told that if we are seen without a mask in a public place, even if...

WHY ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS MATTER SO MUCH TO CONGRESS AND BJP

April 7, 2021

With polling on 6 April, it’s finally the end of this round of Assembly polls in all the states except West Bengal. The official reason why the polls in West Bengal were so staggered is the expected level of violence that has marred polling in the state. And this is...

MAMATA BANERJEE: THE WOUNDED LIONESS

April 2, 2021

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is fighting the toughest battle of her career where she is taking on the might of the BJP. Despite a 10-year anti-incumbency, despite the BJP unleashing its ablest general Home Minister Amit Shah to take her on, she seems to be holding her own....

CAN OPPOSITION TRUST SHARAD PAWAR TO BUILD AN ANTI-BJP COALITION?

March 31, 2021

The recent meeting between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has created ripples within the Opposition. More so since Shah is also the BJPs ace strategist and the party’s man on the ground when it comes to wooing new allies. Of course, given the recent turmoil...

LOCKDOWN ANNIVERSARY: COVID IS BACK WITH A SECOND SURGE

March 26, 2021

It’s been one year since we locked down and the focus seems to be back on the pandemic as there is talk of a second surge and mutations. It is also a time when the government has announced vaccinations for all those above the age of 45 years. This is...

WHY IS WEST BENGAL SO IMPORTANT?

March 24, 2021

Assembly elections are often seen as a sort of weather vane to gauge the mood in between various general elections. This is not necessarily accurate—recall the 2008 Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh elections that the BJP swept only to lose the 2009 general elections. And more recently, in 2018 the...

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