Outlook Magazine - April 27, 2020

In this issue

It’s appraisal time. But a pandemic barreled in and
1.3 billion people were ordered to stay indoors—a
lockdown of the country, it’s economy and more.
People were furloughed; salary delays and indefinite
leave without pay have been increasing across
sectors. Fear of catching the virus is now running
alongside another anxiety: ‘Will I retain my job’?

Guns Of Never End

Lockdown—political and pandemic—brings peace to Kashmir, but a new militancy is rising.

2 mins

Incovidient Questions

Even as she exudes confident control in her televised administrative meetings, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has reasons to be worried. They go beyond the matrix of operations involved in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, from feeding the needy and protecting health workers to contact tracing—the Centre and the BJP have sharply attacked the Trinamool government over handling the pandemic.

2 mins

MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI DONATES ₹13 CRORES FOR COMBATING CORONA

The Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Kollam, Kerala, always in the forefront of social upliftment through education, health and its several other initiatives, has liberally donated from Rs 10 crore to the PM CARES and Rs 3 crores to the Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDR Fund) to combat the virulent Covid-19, even as the world is at its wits’ end to contain its devastating rampage across continents.

3 mins

A Test Case In Testing Times

Holes in MP’s hazmat suit are showing—a CM without a health minister fights a pandemic; private hospitals are getting to treat more coronavirus patients than AIIMS, Bhopal

8 mins

Altered State of Governance

How the fight against COVID-19 is changing the way the government works

5 mins

Peace by Piece

The Taliban angrily withdraws from talks with Kabul. The United States, the initiator, is preoccupied with fighting COVID-19.

5 mins

Pink Slip Or Pay Cheque?

Post-lockdown, the world of work won’t be what we used to know. For many, the uncertainty of livelihood would likely linger much longer, and be no less painful.

10 mins

Is Corona A Job Virus?

Within catastrophe lies opportunity. If only we can manage to reinvent ourselves.

3 mins

Save Business to Save People

Instead of forcing businesses to pay employees, there are better ways for the government to do good by helping business stay afloat during and after the crisis

7 mins

When Stalin and Mother Teresa Agree

A scientist responds to the human tragedy that is COVID-19, and asks questions of science and society.

6 mins

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