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Patralekha Chatterjee
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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    A patient struggles to breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) under a tent installed along a roadside amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Ghaziabad on May 4, 2021. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Inequity & privilege in the time of a pandemic

    Even in these traumatic times, those of us who can work from home, for instance, are massively better positioned than...

    6 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

    India now has the worlds fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding more than 250,000 new infections every day for the past week or so. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Lessons not learnt after a year of battling...

    Once again, we are locked down. And migrant workers are leaving out of fear of being abandoned. How did we get here?

    22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Even as government health advisories tell ordinary people to observe social distancing, avoid big crowds and wear masks at all times, there is ample evidence of many politicians on the campaign trail doing just the opposite. (Representational Photo: AP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | As Covid-19 spikes, the season of fear is back

    We got here because of complacency, by ignoring early alerts by health experts

    8 April 2021 4:18 AM IST

    Until a state of herd immunity is reached, mask-wearing, hand washing with soap and social distancing will have to necessarily remain. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Halt Covid complacency: Be vigilant, keep all...

    If we become complacent, and drop our guard, infections can rise. That affects us all

    25 March 2021 4:17 AM IST

    About 400 million Indians have no access to the Internet. Far fewer women have access to cellphones and Internet services. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | All must get vaccine: Say no to class, digital...

    The euphoria about getting the jab seems to be confined so far to the better-off sections of society

    12 March 2021 12:13 AM IST

    Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Judges need to protect right to dissent,...

    In recent days, two court orders in particular have buoyed spirts because they emit a powerful signal

    27 Feb 2021 4:40 AM IST

    There is really no way we can prevent the rest of the world from taking interest in our domestic affairs, especially if we wish to be at the high table of the international community. (Photo:AP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | The siege within: India and the foreign hand'

    The ruling BJP sees comments from global celebrities in support of the ongoing farmers' protests as part of a deep...

    11 Feb 2021 4:01 AM IST

    Standup comedian Munawar Faruqui (Imag source: Instagram)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Can we really laugh our way to a stronger...

    It can strike the heart of power in a good-natured way, which is why many see comedy as arguably the most democratic...

    5 Feb 2021 7:13 AM IST

    A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Is ‘new normal’ really a return to the old...

    For a fleeting while, optimists wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had sledgehammered some fundamental lessons into us

    14 Jan 2021 12:03 AM IST

    The controversy, however, is more about the drug regulators emergency approval to the second coronavirus vaccine, the indigenously produced Covaxin, before critical efficacy data of the third phase of clinical trials are out.Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Why trust needs to be the key word in 2021

    Opacity in decision-making, attempts to gloss over mistakes or polarise the populace on any count will punch holes in...

    7 Jan 2021 4:59 AM IST

    Photo credit TwitterOpinion
    Child nutrition crisis may derail India’s aspirations

    The underfed hugely outnumber the overfed but alongside the crisis of child under-nutrition, we are also seeing a rise...

    17 Dec 2020 7:38 AM IST

    A vendor waits for customers at a Friday market in Chennai on November 27 (Arun SANKAR / AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hunger

    Globally, there is a red alert about the shadow pandemic of hunger in the time of COVID-19

    3 Dec 2020 9:50 AM IST

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