[WSMDiscuss] Holding the State Accountable for People's Misery

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! The COVID-19 pandemiclead to an unplanned countrywide lockdown which is still continuing. Millionsof lesser human have been left high and dry and are still walking barefoot/ orwith minimal accessories and in the process dying an unnatural death eitherthrough road accidents or due to callous policy of the state governments andthe central government. 

 

Holding the State accountable forpeople’s misery is an important task that needs to be carried out now and innear future. 

 

Do pass it on to others in yourcircle/network. 

 

ShoddyImplementation of Lockdown a Crime against Humanity: Arundhati Roy

NewsClick, March 26, 2020 

https://www.newsclick.in/shoddy-implementation-lockdown-crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy

 

Vijay Prashad, executive director, Tricontinental: Institutefor Social Research, speaks to renowned author Arundhati Roy about thelockdown, economic policies of the government and plight of thepeople—particularly of the working class.

 

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India’s brutally uneven development patterns are mappedin routes migrant workers are taking home

Sai Balakrishnan, Opinion, Scroll, May 26, 2020 

https://scroll.in/article/962925/the-routes-migrant-workers-are-taking-home-reflect-indias-brutally-uneven-geographical-development

 

The largest wave of internal migration is from the poorest districts ofeastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, forced out by agrarian distress.

 

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After thelockdown, we need a reckoning

Arundhati Roy, Opinion, Financial Times, May 24, 2020   

Arundhati Roy: after the lockdown, we need a reckoning


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India’s response to the pandemic has been a social catastrophe. Who will be held accountable?
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India’s response to the pandemic has been a socialcatastrophe. Who will be held accountable?

 

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With Regards 

Umakant, Ph. D 

New Delhi 



 






My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
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