Talking policy – Page 3 – Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay

Surveilling the Virus

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world, cities and countries are left grappling with questions of how to minimise spread, how to meet the requirements...

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Confronting disparities in the time of COVID-19

India is in the second stage of transmission of the COVID-19 epidemic, although some commentators predict a ‘tsunami of cases’...

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What will this underpass lead to?

This is the editorial from the Vol. XXVI, No. 2, April 2020 (No. 144) Issue of the Protected Areas Update, a newsletter produced by Kalpavriksh and Centre for Policy Studies.

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Death Penalty: When justice is SEEN to be done

Amidst the chaos of a pandemic, when nothing seems more secure than house arrest, the Indian state seized the opportunity to put an end to a long standing trial...

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COVID-19: Responding to the Risk

On 11th March, 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic (WHO, 2020).

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A Tale of Two Tragedies

This is the editorial from the Vol. XXVI, No. 1, February 2020 (No. 143) Issue of the Protected Area Update, a newsletter produced by Kalpavriksh and Centre for Policy Studies.

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Disposable Sanitary Napkins: A Case of Single Use Plastic?

Shobha Kamble starts her work at 5 AM by scavenging through the public garbage dumps in the Morwadi area of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).