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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2020 Wave 1), released online late last month, reaffirms a positive trend: households in India, both rich and poor, are pinning their hopes on education as a passport to upward mobility, even in the times of Covid-19. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Prioritise the needs of most vulnerable kids

    The pandemic has once again sledgehammered the fact that in digital India, everyone is not equal

    5 Nov 2020 8:04 AM

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Right) with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360 | India must learn from others, shed its hubris

    Bangladesh has invested in strengthening its human capital, especially women, and this is paying off also in economic...

    19 Oct 2020 5:09 AM

    Migrant workers and stranded people sleep in the forecourt of the Secunderabad railway station. (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)Opinion
    Dev 360 | -'No data-' is not good enough

    On matters of life and death, such as the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that data be in the public domain

    25 Sept 2020 4:16 PM

    Students come out after appearing in JEE Main exam, at a centre in Noida. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360 | In any crisis, take care of the most vulnerable

    Covid-19 has not only revealed vulnerabilities and inequalities in the education systems across the world, it has made...

    4 Sept 2020 11:57 AM

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha | ‘Lockdown generation’ at risk: Save their jobs

    The CMIE data analysis underlines a grim fact during Unlock 3.0

    20 Aug 2020 12:52 PM

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    Dev 360 | Pandemic on rise: More questions than answers

    Meanwhile, India’s official Covid-19 tally has crossed the 19-lakh mark; and the death toll is close to 40,000

    8 Aug 2020 11:32 AM

    Workers stich personal protective equipment (PPE) kits at a factory. Government has relaxed norms of having in-house testing for three kinds of Personal Protective Equipments. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Dev 360 | A quality challenge for Atma Nirbhar Bharat

    Atmanirbharta and Make in India must meet the quality challenge at home as well as abroad

    23 July 2020 8:17 PM

    A medic wearing PPE collects samples from a woman as others wait for COVID-19 rapid antigen testing, in New Delhi. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360 | Lessons from our patchwork pandemic, state by state

    Currently, the big story is the surge in number of new infections in the southern states

    10 July 2020 11:49 AM

    Dev 360 | Medicine and frontiers: The challenge that China posesOpinion
    Dev 360 | Medicine and frontiers: The challenge that China poses

    Globally, the pharma industry’s demand for less stringent environmental regulations is a prickly issue

    26 Jun 2020 12:19 PM

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    Patralekha | Why Covid-19 pandemic is now personal

    The lack of trust between the Centre and Opposition-ruled states is a huge stumbling block

    13 Jun 2020 12:36 PM

    A scooterist tries to pass under an uprooted tree lying across a road, in the aftermath of the extremely severe cyclone Amphan, in Kolkata (PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360 | Cascading crises force periphery into the core

    Kolkata's devastation feels personal because it is, but it's not the only place that has been hit hard

    28 May 2020 12:55 PM

    Thane: Migrants from the northern states walk along the Mumbai-Nashik highway to reach their native places, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Thane. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360: Can gutting labour laws spell advantage to India?

    The key assumption is that labour rights are a major roadblock to business growth

    15 May 2020 11:47 AM

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