CoronaVirus – Page 4 – Breaking Views

July 21, 2020
TeamRS
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Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine Safe, Able To Induce Immunity In Initial Trials

The Oxford University’s novel coronavirus vaccine candidate has shown promise in phase I/II human trials, according to peer-reviewed results of the study published The Lancet. Writing in the journal,...

July 9, 2020
TeamRS
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The Return of Amit Shah

What does the ‘return’ of Amit Shah to the Covid fight centre stage indicate? Can the home minister re-invent his persona for Covid times? Or will politics remain as...

June 5, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Covid-19: Where a new India is born

Since a prolonged lockdown offers an opportunity for the creative juices to flow, allow me a little bit of poetic licence this week to adapt the famous poem of...

May 22, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Dark side of Gujarat Model

The much-trumpeted ‘Gujarat model’ is in a mess in corona times. Consider the following: Not only does Gujarat have amongst the highest number of corona virus cases in the...

May 8, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
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The Babus Have Taken Over Corona Fight

The classic BBC television sitcom, Yes Minister, superbly captures the intriguing relationship between politician and bureaucrat. In one memorable sequence, Sir Humphrey Appleby, tells his minister James Hacker, “You...

April 24, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

No Islamophobia Please in Corona Times

“Hey, news television seems to have finally broken out of the Hindu-Muslim mindset!” I exulted to a colleague soon after the lockdown was announced last month. As news channels...

April 10, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Compassion with Coercion: Leadership in age of corona

It is perhaps a less known fact that Narendra Modi’s political career was dramatically transformed by a natural disaster. The alleged mishandling of relief operations during the 2001 Kutch...

April 10, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Corona Challenge is about Team India not Brand Modi

In the build up to the 2019 general elections, the BJP’s most potent campaign plank was to pose a direct question: ‘Modi versus who?’. By foregrounding the leadership issue,...