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Prabir Purkayastha, Shahid Tantray
Newsclick ED Raids: The Process Becomes the Punishment
17 Feb 2021
“We are transparent in what we have done; everything has been done according to the law.”
Prabir Purkayastha
IMF and Big Business for Universal Vaccination: Better Red than Dead
29 Jan 2021
The me-first policy on vaccine sharing will bring losses of $203 billion to $5 trillion to rich countries, while the returns are the highest if they support global universal vaccination.
Prabir Purkayastha
Forced Consent and No Transparency Can Create a Backlash against Vaccines
22 Jan 2021
In its reckless pursuit of an Indian vaccine which it can take credit for, the Modi government is doing lasting damage to mass vaccination programmes.
Sasank, Prabir Purkayastha
The Ugly Truth of WhatsApp’s User Data Privacy
16 Jan 2021
Facebook’s meteoric rise as one of the biggest global monopolies has been accompanied by continuous weakening of its user privacy. With WhatsApp users voting with their feet, has Facebook’s past…
Prabir Purkayastha
Pseudo Nationalism Trumps Science in Vaccine Clearance
09 Jan 2021
‘...why the hue and cry among the scientific community? It is the damage to the scientific institutions that we have built in this country when a regulator, under pressure, clears a vaccine violating…
Prabir Purkayastha
Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India
26 Dec 2020
Three academic publishers are asking for blocking of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, two websites who provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students.
Prabir Purkayastha
Vaccine Rollout Battle: First Past the Post May Win Major Market Share
10 Dec 2020
India’s mass vaccination plans may fail if it does not hold open discussions on its plans with health professionals and the people.
Prabir Purkayastha
COVID-19: Good News on the Vaccine Front but Challenges Remain
06 Dec 2020
‘With the vaccine, will we address the public health challenge of COVID-19 better? And, as long as COVID-19 exists in the world, no country will be safe. Remember, microbes do not respect borders.’
Prabir Purkayastha
Three Problems of Reading Engels and the Reasons Why We Need To
27 Nov 2020
On this bicentenary of Friedrich Engels, we need to understand the nature of the struggle of ideas that Engels was engaged in his times, and what its significance is today.
Prabir Purkayastha
Good News on Vaccines but What About its Delivery?
14 Nov 2020
If we plan to vaccinate the entire Indian people, the states need to be involved in a big way, however, the Modi government has so far centralised all aspects of the management of the epidemic,…