The diagram of society is changing. Coronavirus has already redrawn the lines of commune in our society. We are under lockdown and the entrance to our homes has become the line that confines us to our homes. As we go to the market to fetch essential food items, we have to mark our distance from the lethal virus with...
Thinking Education at a Time of Global Pandemic
The closure of schools in the wake of the pandemic has brought the spotlight on the system of education that we have built over a long period of time. While our classrooms have stopped teaching our students, it is time for us to learn to identify all that is ailing our educational system and try and seek sustainable solutions. ...
The Loss of the Right Choice: Ethical Quandary in the Wake of the Pandemic of Coronavirus
The fact that one can almost cough one another to death has opened a moral quandary in the wake of the global pandemic of coronavirus. Every human person has to face the possibility of being both the victim as well as the vector of a lethal infection. Hence, we are robbed of our ability to do the right thing...
Coronavirus as a Discourse
Coronavirus is not simply a sign. It has become a discourse. A set of discursive practices are being assembled around it. One can easily spot these practices on the television. The lethal virus has steadily become a complex site where battles for knowledge, power, and safety are fought, lost and won. Although the virus is democratic and does not...
The Haunting Presence of Absences
The heart breaking crises that hit both rural and urban India cannot be described with words. On one side we can see cries of ailing people due to lack of bed space, oxygen, medicines, doctors, nurses etc., and on the other side we find people struggling to give dignified final rites to their beloved whom they have lost to...
