Category Archives: India

Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic

More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.

Coronavirus-Induced Food Supply Disruptions Hitting Farmers, Poor Consumers

Food scarcity is already starting to bite in the US and is likely to become a serious problem in much of the world.

India’s Poorest Now Have Access to Basic Bank Accounts, and Many Already Received their First Cash Stimulus Payment By Last Saturday; Meanwhile the IRS May Get You Your $1200 Check in Five Months

A tale of two stimuli: the Modi government has already made some direct deposits; some Americans will wait five months to receive checks.

Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stem COVID-19 transmission triggered vast migration of the poor.

Informal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus

Not surprisingly, people who don’t have regular jobs will be very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. And there are a lot of them.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Coronavirus and Food Security

UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?

Tim Cook and Apple Bet the Farm on China, But Then Coronavirus Hit

WSJ examines the consequences of the decision by Apple to become so dependent on China – what looks to be a catastrophic mistake in the age of coronavirus.

Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon

India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.

Coal Is Dead, But China Is Reviving It

Bad climate news: coal is far from over.

Greenpeace Report: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution “Solutions”

Greenpeace publishes report on woeful state of plastic pollution “solutions”.

India to Ban Single-Use Plastics; Global Recycling Market Still Chaotic

India will soon announce details of its single-use plastics ban; will it be seduced to courting the recycling fairy to address the waste management problems of other countries who don’t understand recycling isn’t a long-term sustainable option.

Modi’s Kashmir Power Grab Was Decades in the Making

Repeated constitutional attacks paved the way for the government to finally strip Kashmir of its rights.

De-Facto Annexation of Kashmir Means India as a Secular State is Ending

Some of the implications of India’s annexation of Kashmir.

New Study Predicts Millions of Americans May Become Exposed to “Off the Charts” Heat

Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, as we’ve seen in India, the US, and now Europe.