At personal financial risk and with the support of international funding, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla began manufacturing the Covishield vaccine months before the government clearance in January. By December last year, the SII had stockpiled some 200 million doses of Covishield. With …
India’s anti-COVID inoculation drive will enter a crucial phase from March 1. Senior citizens and people over the age of 45 with co-morbidities will be administered the vaccine over the next six months when the government plans to inoculate about 27 crore people. They will …
Who am I and why am I here? The straightforward questions, Pablo Neruda said, are the toughest. Tougher, as we mark one year of the pandemic. The pain and suffering around the world and in our country has brought us closer to a specific human …
Written by Arvind Gupta In the last few years, it’s been extremely encouraging to see the push for bold reforms that integrate technology and new innovative tools to improve the quality of life for Indians. The development of IndiaStack and the JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar …
Transparency and trust are two major —and interrelated — pillars of public policy decision-making. Transparency is the principle of allowing those affected by decisions to know about the outcome and the process that led to those decisions. Transparent governance means that government officials act in …
On one of these bleak, foggy mornings that make for reflection, my mother wondered aloud how my life might have turned out if we hadn’t moved from Bombay to Delhi when I was a teenager. Not fundamentally differently, I like to presume. I’d still be …
Among Joe Biden’s first decisions after assuming office as the 46th President of the US was to recommit his country to the Paris Climate Change Pact and affirm Washington’s ties with the World Health Organisation (WHO). His predecessor, Donald Trump, had withdrawn the US from …
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to what has arguably been the most unequal recession in recent history, exacerbating inequalities along several axes. While millions of Indians, especially those in the informal sector, lost their jobs, and had to dip into whatever meagre savings they had …