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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com

COVID-19 patients inside an isolation ward in Shehnai Banquet Hall near LNJP Hospital, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Opinion

Dev 360 | Lessons from our patchwork pandemic, state by state

Currently, the big story is the surge in number of new infections in the southern states

10 July 2020 5:19 PM IST

Indians have woken up to the other side of the India as a pharmacy to the developing world narrative

Opinion

Dev 360 | Medicine and frontiers: The challenge that China poses

Globally, the pharma industry's demand for less stringent environmental regulations is a prickly issue

26 Jun 2020 5:49 PM IST

Opinion

Patralekha | Why Covid-19 pandemic is now personal

The lack of trust between the Centre and Opposition-ruled states is a huge stumbling block

13 Jun 2020 6:09 PM IST

A scooterist tries to pass under an uprooted tree lying across a road, in the aftermath of the extremely severe cyclone Amphan, in Kolkata (PTI)

Opinion

Dev 360 | Cascading crises force periphery into the core

Kolkata's devastation feels personal because it is, but it's not the only place that has been hit hard

28 May 2020 6:30 PM IST

Migrants queue up for thermal screening on their arrival at Amethi railway station from Gujarat by a special train, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Amethi. PTI Photo

Opinion

Dev 360: Can gutting labour laws spell advantage to India?

The key assumption is that labour rights are a major roadblock to business growth

15 May 2020 5:17 PM IST

Patna: A health worker sanitizes migrants who have arrived from Jaipur by Shramik Special train at Danapur junction, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Patna. PTI Photo

Opinion

Dev 360: The migrants homecoming story, watch in months ahead

In the coming days, much of the health and economic action will have to move to rural India

2 May 2020 5:43 PM IST

Migrant workers and homeless people being made to do yoga at New Delhis Yamuna Sports Complex which was converted into a makeshift camp for those stranded in Delhi without a home. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opinion

Migrant workers' plight: Ignore at your own peril

The majority of stranded workers were not able to recall the name of the builder or company they have been working for

17 April 2020 6:29 PM IST

Migrant workers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opinion

Dev 360: Lockdown, long march: Catastrophe looming

If we don't take immediate measures to mitigate the larger human crisis the lockdown has triggered, we are heading...

2 April 2020 1:54 PM IST

A volunteer distributes masks outside a government hospital as a precaution against COVID-19 in Jammu on March 16, 2020. (AP)

Opinion

Dev 360: Navigating uncertainty in the time of coronavirus

Let's not be fixated on daily 'numbers'; let's look at preparedness

19 March 2020 8:33 AM IST

A families leaves riot-affected Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opinion

After Delhi burns, there is despair, but also hope

Journalists reporting the violence in northeast Delhi have been explicitly asked whether they were Hindu or Muslim.

6 March 2020 6:46 AM IST

India is the fabled pharmacy of the world. Indias low-cost generic drug makers cater to domestic and international needs. But here is the catch. Most of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) or bulk drugs necessary to produce these medicines come from just one country China. APIs are what give a medicine its therapeutic effect.

Opinion

Health security must be on the policy high table

What is of great concern to India is the impact of coronavirus (called Covid 19 by scientists) on the pharmaceutical...

21 Feb 2020 2:37 AM IST

Opinion

Delhi poised on edge: Can a hate chant win?

The young men who breezily sauntered down the road shouting explicitly violent slogans were eventually bundled into a...

6 Feb 2020 1:54 AM IST