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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
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Right) with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360 | India must learn from others, shed its hubris

    Bangladesh has invested in strengthening its human capital, especially women, and this is paying off also in economic...

    19 Oct 2020 10:40 AM IST

    Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360 | 'No data is not good enough

    On matters of life and death, such as the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that data be in the public domain

    25 Sept 2020 9:48 PM IST

    A student undergoes thermal screening as she arrives to appear in JEE Main examination, at a center in Kozhikode. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360 | In any crisis, take care of the most vulnerable

    Covid-19 has not only revealed vulnerabilities and inequalities in the education systems across the world, it has made...

    4 Sept 2020 5:28 PM IST

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha | Lockdown generation' at risk: Save their jobs

    The CMIE data analysis underlines a grim fact during Unlock 3.0

    20 Aug 2020 6:26 PM IST

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Dev 360 | Pandemic on the rise: More questions than answers

    Meanwhile, India's official Covid-19 tally has crossed the 19-lakh mark; and the death toll is close to 40,000

    8 Aug 2020 5:06 PM IST

    : Workers stitch personal protective equipment (PPE) suits at a private manufacturing unit during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Vijayawada. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360 | A quality challenge for Atma Nirbhar Bharat

    Atmanirbharta and Make in India must meet the quality challenge at home as well as abroad

    24 July 2020 1:54 AM IST

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

    Representational image (PTI)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 PhotoOpinion
    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 PhotoOpinion
    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

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