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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    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 5:17 PM IST

    Migrants on board a special train for Bhubaneswar to reach their native places, amid ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Aluva Station in Kochi. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360: The migrants homecoming story, watch in months ahead

    In the coming days, much of the health and economic action will have to move to rural India

    2 May 2020 5:43 PM IST

    Migrant workers and homeless people being made to do yoga at New Delhis Yamuna Sports Complex which was converted into a makeshift camp for those stranded in Delhi without a home. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
    Migrant workers' plight: Ignore at your own peril

    The majority of stranded workers were not able to recall the name of the builder or company they have been working for

    17 April 2020 6:26 PM IST

    Migrant workers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandypadhyay)Opinion
    Dev 360: Lockdown, long march: Catastrophe looming

    If we don't take immediate measures to mitigate the larger human crisis the lockdown has triggered, we are heading...

    2 April 2020 1:51 PM IST

    A volunteer distributes masks outside a government hospital as a precaution against COVID-19 in Jammu on March 16, 2020. (AP)Opinion
    Dev 360: Navigating uncertainty in the time of coronavirus

    Let-'s not be fixated on daily -'numbers-'; let-'s look at preparedness

    19 March 2020 8:30 AM IST

    A medical staff member collects a sample taken from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in Chinas central Hubei province. AFP photoOpinion
    Health security must beon the policy high table

    What is of great concern to India is the impact of coronavirus (called Covid 19 by scientists) on the pharmaceutical...

    21 Feb 2020 1:44 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Delhi poised on edge: Can a hate chant win?

    The young men who breezily sauntered down the road shouting explicitly violent slogans were eventually bundled into a...

    6 Feb 2020 4:25 AM IST

    Chandrashekhar AzadOpinion
    A crisis of healthcare plagues India’s jails

    The recent public protests against the citizenship law and related matters bring to the fore the issue of a prisoner’s...

    23 Jan 2020 5:59 AM IST

    It is vital to make sure that children acquire cognitive skills in their early years because this is closely linked to outcomes in many other areas.Opinion
    For kids, early years are vital to a brighter future

    The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009 mandates that children should enter Class 1 at age...

    18 Jan 2020 5:45 AM IST

    JNU students protest at Delhi Police Headquarters after some masked miscreants attacked in the campus. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Young Indians want to take back stolen future

    JNU students say the police remained standing by as the stick-wielding intruders exited the campus without any...

    9 Jan 2020 2:02 AM IST

    Meanwhile, 9000 protestors have been booked and 2000 held for the violent protests across the state. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Everyone should have access to medical care

    The visuals of policemen storming into a hospital and banging on doors are hard to forget.

    27 Dec 2019 1:52 AM IST

    It is fair to say that large sections of the population have expressed gratitude to the police for eliminating those alleged rapists and killers of Dr. Disha.Opinion
    Is Indian State strong or is it, in fact, failing?

    A “strong” State can have strong coercive powers but low technical and organisational capacity.

    12 Dec 2019 12:26 AM IST

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