There is unprecedented disarray and instability in the global economy ever since the outbreak of the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) in January 2020. This development has exposed the deep fault lines existing in the global economic and political order besides severely impacting countries across the spectrum. The current situation has[Read More…]

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world but as in great movies of Alfred Hitchcock, these are only the first acts. Many countries are at the beginning of the fight but I’m confident that the world can handle it. The bigger problem that we have to start thinking about is[Read More…]

Corona Virus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus which the medical authorities are gradually coming to grips with the situation. The virus has affected all the countries in the World and efforts are on to contain the spread by social distancing testing and finally respiratory treatment.

COVID 19 & INDIA 2020

Middle East: fire under the ashes during the time of COVID-19

From time immemorial, a common topic of debate amongst International Relations circles has been over the possible outbreak of World War III, the source of contention, the nature of conflict, its scale etc. While some strategic circles believe that CoVID-19 is starting of a new cold war, this time between[Read More…]

Having battled several epidemics post-World War II, the world at large scarcely imagined getting hit by a Covid-19 like pandemic that would revive memories of the 1918 plague and the economic depression of 1929. The first of the Covid-19 cases having been reported from Wuhan in China, the emergence of[Read More…]

Under the Constitution of India, Labour is a subject in the Concurrent List and, therefore, both the Central and State governments are competent to enact legislations subject to few matters being reserved for the Centre. Both the Union and State Governments are responsible for the enactment of laws relating to the[Read More…]

Two contradictory aspects have emerged out of the unprecedented global crisis over the Covid-19 pandemic one pushing countries to turn inwards closing territorial boundaries and distancing/isolating to help secure themselves from the rapid spread and the other the need for globalized effort to help contain the disease. Be that as[Read More…]

It seems only right that I should write this from a UK perspective. This is indeed one of those rare events, so world encompassing that every nation will be telling their own story of struggle against the virus, that there is really no need to put it into any other[Read More…]