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Vaccine optimism and the scientific uncertainty link

Rama V. Baru Rajib Dasgupta

Amidst the vaccine rollout, there is a critical need for a climate of transparency and data sharing for scrutiny and debate

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Karnataka’s giant leaps backward

Building trust in vaccines

Chapal Mehra By being accountable and transparent and countering misinformation, the government can improve vaccine intake

Former Democratic Party legislators Andrew Wan, left, Lam Cheuk-ting, second from left, and Helena Wong, right, attend a press conference after their released on bail in Hong Kong on January 8, 2021.

Two protests and false parallels

Ryan Ho Kilpatrick While democracy was under siege in the U.S. last week, autocracy was under siege in Hong Kong in 2019

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Vaccine optimism and the scientific uncertainty link

Two protests and false parallels

Building trust in vaccines

Karnataka’s giant leaps backward

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Mediating the farmers’ protests is difficult terrain

Restoring credibility of the GOP

Policing a turbulent democracy

A balance has to be struck between police autonomy and the need for the political executive to retain control over the force, but this rarely happens

In ancient Al-Ula, forging a new future

The Arab Quartet’s reconciliation with Qatar could lead to new regional alignments

The debilitating side-effect of a flawed vaccine trial

A failure to investigate the conduct of the recent Covaxin phase-3 trial can affect the course of other studies under way

Decoding Cuba’s currency reforms

Cuba will gain from a unified peso but it must take citizens along in order to implement the new reforms

Arrow’s Paradox in the age of social media

Shortened attention spans, relentless messaging, and the mechanics of elections make for an incendiary mix

A step back in gender equality

Paying women for domestic and care work is a recognition of their efforts but may not reduce and redistribute their burden

Dialogues for democracy, lessons from Rajasthan

Federalism and good governance need engagement between people and officials, as the MGNREGA programme shows

A tale of two speeches at AMU

Modi’s speech at the university showed a shift from Nehruvian candour to courteous commendation

The front seat in electric mobility

The lithium and cobalt industry are likely to grow domestically to support the switch to electric vehicles

Planning an exit out of the easy money regime

The RBI’s main challenge would be in managing the tension between restraining inflation and supporting recovery

Grading India’s counter-coercive strategy

It can only be fair to argue that the country has done well in countering Chinese moves in eastern Ladakh

Getting ready for vaccination

Training more and more healthcare workers to become COVID-19 experts is the way forward

Rallying at the seat of power

Some protests strengthen democracy, others weaken it

Do we have a grip on disinformation in 2021?

Disinformation is increasing and becoming harder to combat, but fact-checking too is evolving

A hegemony upended by a Frankenstein

The loss of the Republican party in the Georgia run-offs has exposed the limits of Trumpism

When art comes to the audience

Holding the International Film Festival of Kerala in four cities will help reach a wider demography

The quagmire that is Brexit

Once the euphoria of nationalism subsides, Britain will have to face the real issues that affect it

The importance of social interactions

A year of being homebound has deepened divisions in a society already fraught with prejudices

Boosting India with maritime domain awareness

Beyond monitoring Chinese activity in the Indian Ocean, India’s initiatives could help generate intraregional synergy

The hurdles in Xi’s great power ambitions

To achieve global leadership, China needs more than wealth and military power

Changing contours of India-U.K. ties

The two countries have a shared past and need to chart a different shared future

An arbitrary directive

The Centre’s directive to the Bengal government goes against the norms governing deputation of officers

Shock treatment will not work in agriculture

Post-1991, changes in industry caused a second de-industrialisation; the results in agriculture are likely to be no different

Hasty approval, no transparency

India has squandered an opportunity to build trust in COVID-19 vaccines

Care is the standard of a vaccine trial

We need a vaccine but not at the cost of the safety of study participants

Embracing energy efficiency

Doing so can bring down household energy bills and reduce the financial stress of discoms

Quality gigs, a solution to urban unemployment

With no urban equivalent to the NREGA as yet, there must be a focus on supporting new forms of employment

The importance of an otherwise routine vote

There will possibly be a unanimous rejection of the Republican objections to Joe Biden’s electoral votes

Don’t ignore the women farmers

The gender gap in the agriculture sector will only widen more with the current farm laws

An anti-disclosure amendment that hits public health

The dilution of patent working disclosure rules hampers the effectiveness of India’s compulsory licensing regime

Taking note of farmer welfare, the Kerala way

The political allegations levelled against the State in the context of the farmers’ protest are far removed from the facts

Acclimatising to climate risks

This year, policymakers, industry captains and citizens must make climate proof choices

Chasing a superstar

What is was like to tail Rajinikanth and buttonhole him for his political views.

Parley | Has the Special Marriage Act failed to protect inter-faith couples?

It has not achieved the kind of success it was intended to achieve for many reasons

A leopard count with a missing benchmark number

Assessing numbers of cats in select sites and monitoring areas they occupy over swathes will ensure a better overview

Straws in the wind in South Block

Various developments this year have created a kind of lull on the foreign policy front

A virus that changes stripes

The emergence of the new variant shows that more genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 is needed

Give adequate time for a probe

Narrow timelines for investigation of sensitive cases creates scope for procedural loopholes.

Before a new dawn, glimpses of a trauma-filled year

It has been ‘annus horribilis’ so far, but science and technology and human ingenuity could make 2021, ‘annus mirabilis’

The climate policy needs new ideas

It is not the rising prosperity of the poor that endangers the planet but the wasteful behaviour of the West

The tragedy of conservation

Isolating the indigenous people from their natural habitats in the Western Ghats to protect biodiversity is unproductive

The broken bonds of democracy

An unsettled law is as dangerous as bad law

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