Amused by the propensity of Indians to indulge in pseudoscience and their collective mentality to blindly accept the Vedas as a source of not only spiritual but also physical knowledge, globally eminent Indian scientist Professor Meghnad Saha used to remark…
The body of the child at the site of protest has always been a point of contestation. It is used by the State to dilute protest movements. This could be seen during the farmers’ movement and also the Shaheen Bagh…
Communicating public health crises effectively and accurately to the people has remained a serious concern throughout the last century. Media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed many systemic issues associated with the functioning of the mainstream media across the…
Lim Mah-Hui and Michael Heng Siam-Heng, COVID-19 and the Structural Crises of Our Time, ISEAS Publishing, 2022, xxi+198 pages For generations born after World War II, the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the greatest catastrophe they have encountered at a global…
In the lead article to this issue Swarup K. Chakrabarti, Amartya Chowdhury, Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay and Suranjan Das discuss the role of stigmatisation in determining the collateral fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using insights from the conceptual and empirical literature on…
The world witnessed one of the major pandemic events in 1918, wherein approximately 50 to 100 million lives, or about 5 per cent of the global population, were lost due to the H1N1 (influenza) virus (Oxford 2000). About half a…
The Covid-19 pandemic is the most severe disruption experienced worldwide since structural adjustment and liberalisation of economies in the 1990s. Indian cities have been unsettled to an extent that happened never before since independence. Reverse migration of millions of urban…
India is in a state of deep turmoil. There was an economic slowdown even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country. To deal with the pandemic, the Modi government decided to lock down the economy for close to three months,…
We had meant to bring out this special number on Kashmir earlier, but Covid-19 and the ensuing lockdown delayed its appearance to coincide with the first anniversary of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution, and…
We must begin with an apology to our subscribers and readers. The Covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed affected Social Scientist’s production schedule. With offices closed and the press shut down, we had to postpone publication of the March–April…