Unlike in Kashmir, the population in the rest of the country has not witnessed weeks of curfews every year. The majority may not even know what a curfew means or how to deal with it.
If community transmission can be mitigated or avoided altogether in the small population through extraordinary human-centred measures, the Seychelles may continue to report some of the lowest numbers of confirmed cases in the Indian Ocean.
In every dislocation, there is an opportunity. For investors in alternative assets, the short-medium term dislocation wrought by COVID-19 in emerging markets presents an advantageous moment to allocate capital.
India could have much done better to have not been in this position of high risk. Deficits in India’s social welfare are old and basic problems and their solutions involve no rocket science. What is missing in India is the political will to get these ...
New Delhi must consolidate the positive mood in the Valley to regain the trust of the people after abrogation of Article 370.
Let us resolve to leave the standing forests and other natural landscapes alone and revisit the provisions of forest land diversion under the legal framework to minimise biodiversity loss and buffer humanity from zoonotic emerging infectious diseases.
China’s policy narratives against the COVID-19 in the initial stages adopted a denial crisis strategy to deal with the reputational damage.
Self-discipline and strict adherence to government advisories is the key to manage the Coronavirus crisis in India; government response alone will not suffice
A crisis of these proportions call for a combination of basic practices, innovative measures, and radical thinking.
Prashant Kumar is pursuing an MA at the Global Political Economy programme of the University of Sussex. He is a former Associate Fellow at the ORF. ...
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Bedavyasa Mohanty is a Public Policy Manager with WhatsApp where he drives global policy engagement in defense of privacy and encryption. He was previously an Associate Fellow with Observer Research Foundation’s Technology Initiative in New Delhi. A lawyer by training, ...
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