pandemic – Itisaras

Digital India 2.0: Rethinking Healthcare

October 27, 2020February 17, 2021 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments AADHAR, advantage, animal-care, ASHA, citizens, Citizenship, coronavirus, COVID-19, democracy, dependent, digital health, Digital India, digitalization, disadvantage, divine, electronic, environment, equipment, Government, healthy, humanity, initiative, laboratory, medicines, New normal, NHIN, Online, PAN, pandemic, Passport, people, perspective, pharmacy, planet, policies, population, Power, Precautions, project, Ration card, responsibility, safeguard, self-care, solution, technology, uncertain, unique, vaccine, virtual, warriors, work from home

The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed a whole lot of rules and protocols on people to maintain safety and avoid the spread of the virus. Makes one think – in spite of all advancements and progress we have made so far, were we truly prepared for something like this?

Society

Understanding and Living with Eco-Anxiety

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 Debopriya Bhattacharya 0 Comments Amphan, anxiety, balance, Celsius, century, Change, chronic, climate, contour, crisis, cyclone, damage, Disaster, Disaster Management, doom, eco-anxiety, Eco-psychology, environment, environmental issues, epidemic, Fahrenheit, Fani, fear, immunity, intellectual, Landfall, medical diagnosis, medicine, Mental health, mental illness, mental well-being, movement, Obama, pandemic, physician, precaution, professional help, Psychiatry, self-resiliency, social, temperature, therapy, threat multiplier, UN

Our planet is destabilizing and it is not difficult to notice with the extreme weather events, temperature drops, climate changes, and ongoing disasters across the world. People today are being diagnosed with Eco-anxiety – a newly recognized psychological disorder affecting those who are bothered by these environmental cataclysms. If you too are worrying about this impending doom, then rest assured, you are not alone.

Polity Society

TIK TOK Ban – Privacy, Truth and more

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments adjuncts, app, authoritarianism, ban, BeautyPlus, boycotting, COVID-19, Crime, cyber war, cyberspace, Dance, data mining, data nationalism, dialogues, digital authoritarianism, domestic, endangered, Entertainment, foreign, Government, Indo-Chinese, influencer, integrity, livelihood, Music, pandemic, phishing, platform, policy, political, privacy, privacy-breach, propaganda, purge, risk, safety, security, Shein, socioeconomic, sovereignty, spy, spyware, swadeshi, techno-nationalism, techno-politics, threat, TikTok, trade-off, trend, unemployment, vulnerability, We-Chat, Xi Jinping

The entertainment app of Tik Tok was banned amidst the ongoing pandemic as it was said to be a national threat and sharing personal data of its users. Millions of people suffered due to the same and Indian Tik Tok users are still facing the reality of living without it.

Polity Society

Gaps in Virtual Teaching

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments academics, administration, assessments, Catch-22, CBSE, challenge, classroom, content creators, content developers, Corona Virus, Coursera, COVID-19, Development, digitalization, disability, e-material, education, exams, experience, futuristic, helicopter parenting, incommunicado, indispensable, institutions, interference, Internet, invasion, knowledge, learning, link, malpractise, medium, ministry, online classes, online school, online teaching, pandemic, personality, planning, primary, privilege, repository, reputation, responsibility, secondary, skills, teachers, teaching, traditional, Udemy, UGC, virtual, Virtual teaching

Learning and gaining knowledge these days no more remains limited to the four walls of an institution or a classroom. With digitalization, spreading fast these have become a thing of the past, and more so due to ongoing pandemic. Moving ahead head first into the future is one thing, but should we not pause and consider if everyone is reaping the benefits of it?

Polity

Is the Future Here?

August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Shriya Tandon 0 Comments accessible, Change, citizen, computerization, consideration, conundrum, Corona Virus, court, court of law, COVID-19, demand, democracy, dependant, determination, digital justice, digitalization, ecological, future, illiterate, Internet, investment, Judiciary, Lockdown, nation, Online, optimistic, outreach, pandemic, past, predicament, present, procedure, process, reality, reliable, revolutionary, social-distancing, transparent, venture

The ongoing pandemic has really taken things for a spin. Thoughts of the future are now becoming the need of the hour and there are debates on the pros and cons of it. From Virtual Darshan and donations, things are now moving on to justice being delivered digitally. It was only a matter of time.

Society

From Bearers of Rights to Beasts of Burden: The Children’s Experience of the Pandemic

July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Srijal Srivastava 0 Comments aftermath, age, brunt, child labor, child marriage, child pornography, child rearing, Child rights, children, consequence, COVID-19, exertion, exploit, exploitation, factor, Fast Track courts, Female genital mutilation, FGM, finance, financial pressure, human rights, identity, Internet, Justice, justice system, labor, malnourishment, Manu, migrant workers, need, oppression, paedophile, pandemic, participation, pornography, POSCO, pressure, Psychology, punishment, remuneration, Rights, Sexual offence, suppression, urgent, utilitarian, victim, want

Children have hopes and dreams beyond our imagination. They have every right to be given the opportunity to try and achieve it. In spite of that knowledge, we fail to see the plight of scores of children across the nation who miss out on their childhood because the circumstances are against them. Some things are way more than they seem to be.

History

Epidemics: Lessons from History and Nature

June 1, 2020June 4, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 0 Comments alcohol, Bhairoji, Brahmins, Chandpol, contagious, corona fighters, Corona Virus, COVID-19, disease, doctors, epidemic, fatal disease, food, HAKIKAT BAHIYAN, human life, influenza, Jalori gate, Maharaja Man Singh, Maharaja Sumer Singh, Marwar (Jodhpur), measures, medical scientists, medicines, Modti gate, Nagori gate, Nature, pandemic, plague, princely states, quarantine, Rajasthan, relief committee, relief funds, religious solution, reports, sanitizing agent, Sivanchi gate, social distancing, Sojti gate, temporary shelters, vaids, World War I, Yajnas

The world has combated all sorts of crisis without the degree of technological growth we have now. The advancement of knowledge has indeed succoured in to take measures against the deadly Covid-19, but how did people survive in the history? How accurate were the primitive
measures? Where are we still going wrong?
Click on the link below to read more about the ways of the past; a story from Rajasthan.

Society

From the Harbinger of Veracity to A Solicitor of Deception: Crumbling Standards of Indian Media

April 5, 2020April 8, 2020 Editor 0 Comments Aaj Tak, BCG, Boston Consulting Group, community spread, COVID-19, crisis, Ethics, false information, fourth estate, freedom of press, global, global crisis, Government, Health Ministry of India, india, Indian constitution, information disorder, John Hopkins University, Journalism, Media, media ethics, NDTV, pandemic, panic, SARS-CoV-2, sting operation, The Soul of Man under Socialism, TRP

The watchdog of society, the media is the torch that leads the way to liberty through disseminating information. Unfortunately, in contemporary times, their credibility is the biggest question mark. In a situation of a Pandemic like COVID-19, authenticity is paramount to stop the panic fire. But is race for TRP more important?
What the media truly needs is to culminate its pursuit of turning news into sophistry, revive its ethics and reinstate its position as the patron of truth.