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भारत में कोविड-19 संकट का पैमाना कई मायनों में अभूतपूर्व रहा है। वास्तविक मृत्यु दर के आकलन में आंकड़ों की गंभीर कमी समस्या को बढ़ा रही है। इसके आलोक में, यह खुशी की बात है कि पटना उच्च न्यायालय ने एक बार फिर बिहार सरकार को महामारी के दौरान जन्म और मृत्यु के सटीक रिकॉर्ड बनाए रखने में विफल रहने के लिए फटकार लगाई और मौतों की संख्या को प्रकाशित करने में उसकी अनिच्छा की तीखी आलोचना की। अदालत ने लोगों के सूचना के अधिकार को बरकरार रखा; एक अधिकार जिसे लगातार मिटा दिया गया है – जानबूझकर? - जमीनी हकीकत से खिलवाड़ किया गया है। बिहार के आंकड़ों से पता चला है कि 2021 के पहले पांच महीनों में अस्पष्टीकृत कारणों से करीब 75,000 लोगों की मौत हुई – यह आंकड़ा बिहार की आधिकारिक महामारी से होने वाली मौतों की संख्या का लगभग 10 गुना है। नागरिक पंजीकरण प्रणाली ने पाया कि कर्नाटक में भारत में महामारी की शुरुआत के बाद से ‘अधिक मौतों’ की संख्या कोविड -19 मौतों के आधिकारिक रिपोर्ट के आंकड़े से लगभग छह गुना थी। कई राज्यों में संख्या में बड़ी विसंगतियों की रिपोर्टों के बीच – झारखंड, गुजरात, उत्तर प्रदेश कथ...

The most powerful word of the last decade has been development. Since the introduction of liberal economy in India in the year 1991, it has become the ‘tag line’ of Indian people’s aspirations and democratic politics. The direction of progress and change in Indian society is more or less determined by the desire for ‘development’ rising in the minds of the people. This whole concept of development was thought through on the basis of convenience, speed and dazzle. Elements like highways, flyovers, malls, electricity, flashes of LED lights emerged as symbols of the country’s development. The relentless pace of plastic currency, cryptocurrencies, and other forms of human mobility were just beginning to create a globalized world, global humans and markets, that COVID-19 turned this whole concept of development upside down. When I asked a middle-aged farmer from a village in Uttar Pradesh about the same longing for development, which had begun to resonate in t...

If the government's claims and media reports are to be believed, then the second wave of corona is also about to end. Questions are being asked as to when the markets will open, how many will open? When will we be able to go out and roam in the open and when will life be normal or the same? It is too early, to the businessmen, to the common people and also to the governments, when there are sure signs of avert this and how fast the lockdown should be removed and the economy should be put on track. This is also necessary, because more than a year has passed. People do not have work, do not earn. While reducing expenses, not only the poor, but the families of the middle class have also come in such a situation that now they have to calculate the pie. Many people are in the grip of the Bengali. Jobs are lost or salaries are not being received. The same is true of small businessmen as well as those doing small jobs. In such a situation, think of those families, who...