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Covid-19: Know It So That We Can Fight It
27 Mar 2020
A successful fight against Covid-19 pandemic needs to be fought by understanding the disease and uniting the people. This is the lesson that a divisive Modi government refuses to learn.
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Covid-19 Pandemic Poses Fundamental Challenges to all Societies
18 Mar 2020
Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of Covid-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism.
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World at a Tipping Point as COVID-19 Breach 100,000 Victims
07 Mar 2020
As COVID-19 marches through more and more countries, the question of a pandemic is not if but when.
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COVID-19: How China Supercharged Conventional Epidemic Control with Modern Science and Technology
27 Feb 2020
China’s all-of-government and all-of-society approach, so rare in the world, has shown that COVID-19 can be contained.
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The Novel Coronavirus and the Virus of New Cold War
08 Feb 2020
Some of the brickbats that western media and the governments are hurling at the Chinese is racist. Most of it is a continuation of the new cold war that Trump and co. have unleashed on China
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2019-nCoV, a New Threat and Exemplary Action by the Chinese Authorities
01 Feb 2020
The Chinese authorities have indeed acted with extraordinary speed. It is unthinkable to lockdown of the city of the size of Wuhan, with its 11 million population and virtually quarantine the entire…
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After Trump’s Stupid Acts, Can the US and Iran Avoid a Disastrous Collision?
29 Jan 2020
At the moment, only the Iranians seem to be the adults in the room wanting peace.
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Pax Americana and the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon
06 Jan 2020
A war between nuclear powers would certainly end civilisation. The community of nations seems to have lost its voice. Will the people step up?
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Modi’s Digital India Leads World in Internet Shutdowns
28 Dec 2019
If Internet access is a fundamental right, shutting it down is a declaration of complete government failure.
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Government Lying on NPR being Different from NRC
24 Dec 2019
The Modi Government’s claim that NPR and NRC are different is an outright lie. The NRC process begins with the compilation of the National Population Register (NPR). The NPR is, indeed, the first…