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Patralekha Chatterjee
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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    Students wearing facemasks sit in a classroom after their school was reopened in Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Reopen schools, but keep ground realities in...

    Online education has certainly helped many children but the pandemic has also exposed the glaring fault lines in our...

    26 Aug 2021 1:55 AM IST

    The future looks even more turbulent more heatwaves worsened by higher humidity, erratic rainfall, more droughts, floods and forest fires. Representational Image. (Twitter)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Health a key priority in battling climate...

    India, home to millions of the world's poorest, should be worried and better prepared

    12 Aug 2021 3:51 AM IST

    If a state wishes to stabilise its population, it could start with focusing its political energy on improving female literacy and other. Representational Image (Representational image: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Stabilising population by coercion can never...

    There has been a continuous fertility decline among most states in India over the years

    15 July 2021 9:08 AM IST

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    Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid's impact, WFH has hit India's women...

    The unpaid childcare burden per woman in India in a normal year is estimated to be 2,380 hours

    2 July 2021 12:17 AM IST

    The pandemic is indeed making many countries finally acknowledge that they have been undercounting Covid-19 deaths. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid-19 accountability: Making the dead count

    The states which are embracing greater data transparency deserve to be cheered even if by doing so, they push up India's...

    17 Jun 2021 6:49 AM IST

    Women and children line up to receive free meals from a non-government organization during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Bengaluru, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP/Aijaz Rahi)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Protect vulnerable to heal fractures, revive...

    In the absence of a real social protection mechanism in the cities, people have gone back to their villages

    3 Jun 2021 7:05 AM IST

    People perform Suryanamaskar after applying cow dung on their body during cow dung therapy, believing it will boost immunity to fight against the coronavirus disease. (PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | The rise of anti-science as Covid-19 cases...

    Experts have noted that the rise of populism and the emergence of anti-science politics are occurring simultaneously in...

    22 May 2021 1:30 AM IST

    A patient struggles to breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) under a tent installed along a roadside amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Ghaziabad on May 4, 2021. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Inequity & privilege in the time of a pandemic

    Even in these traumatic times, those of us who can work from home, for instance, are massively better positioned than...

    6 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

    India now has the worlds fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding more than 250,000 new infections every day for the past week or so. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Lessons not learnt after a year of battling...

    Once again, we are locked down. And migrant workers are leaving out of fear of being abandoned. How did we get here?

    22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Even as government health advisories tell ordinary people to observe social distancing, avoid big crowds and wear masks at all times, there is ample evidence of many politicians on the campaign trail doing just the opposite. (Representational Photo: AP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | As Covid-19 spikes, the season of fear is back

    We got here because of complacency, by ignoring early alerts by health experts

    8 April 2021 4:21 AM IST

    Until a state of herd immunity is reached, mask-wearing, hand washing with soap and social distancing will have to necessarily remain. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Halt Covid complacency: Be vigilant, keep all...

    If we become complacent, and drop our guard, infections can rise. That affects us all

    25 March 2021 4:17 AM IST

    About 400 million Indians have no access to the Internet. Far fewer women have access to cellphones and Internet services. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | All must get vaccine: Say no to class, digital...

    The euphoria about getting the jab seems to be confined so far to the better-off sections of society

    12 March 2021 12:13 AM IST

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