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The pandemic of Corona virus was not the first epidemic to envelope most countries. There was epidemic virtually a new kind every year for the past three decades to cause panic in masses but not in political regimes world over. Instead they fought with scientist community striving to find cure and contain the epidemic. Ultimately mankind overcame the epidemics. For the first time, political leadership quivered in fear and pushed their citizens behind their closed doors without giving a thought to disastrous consequences for the larger sections that are at the lower rungs and depend on meager daily income by serving and attending to needs of the upper crust.

The Centre introduced the Aarogya Setu app last month ostensibly to keep track of corona virus infectees. It was clarified that the uploading of it in mobile phones was voluntary. Soon enough, however, the Government made it mandatory for all employees, both public and private, to upload the app in their mobile phones.

India has done well to keep the Covid-19 mortality rate to the world’s lowest, but it cannot claim any success in restricting the cost of doing this. It may have saved lives, but as long as it is not on a sustainable basis, the achievement is meaningless. Death due to deprivation is by no means preferable to death from the virus attack.

WASHINGTON—Call it pandemic profits: A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, the latest in its biannual series, shows the ultra-rich got ultra-richer in the months since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. And the richest of them all, Jeff Bezos, profited big time from the ensuing crash.

Marxism, which is the world’s most influential body of thought and has also changed the course of human history, has become more relevant in the Indian context for addressing the economic and humanity crisis that the country was facing in the prevailing situation.

The migrant workers stranded at different states have now started moving to their home towns. One of such migrant worker while returning home told that he is empty-handed. I am not having money even to purchase a doll for my five year old daughter, nothing for my son and wife and also my parents who are anxiously waiting for me. This is the condition of all the migrant workers.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is all set to receive Non-Resident Keralites (NRKs) stranded in US, Europe and Gulf countries who are being brought back from Thursday, May 7, 2020.

“Jan hai to Jahan Hai” is a very old saying. It may have origins in the Moghul era or later, however, it does not matter. it was certainly a desperate cry of a fighter on verges of defeat with dread of death and was eager to escape by running away from the battle ground to save own life. Yet another familiar utterance is “The world will remain if own life is saved.” The NaMo government adopted the strategy on similar perception to fight the pandemic corona virus. It imposed clamp of the lockdown on human activities including earning livelihood to sustain life and social contacts with introduction of fear and suspicions even in close relations of five decades. The solution was to assert that economy has to take back seat, and saving human lives was the first task.

Two centuries later since the birth of Karl Marx, the teachings of the Communist Manifesto are being further underlined by the coming of the coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath. On the great German philosopher’s 203rd birth anniversary, it’s good to recall what Marx said in the Communist Manifesto: "...this formula clearly proves that the bourgeoisie no longer has the right to be the ruler of society, has no right to impose the conditions of its existence on society as the ultimate law. The bourgeoisie is not fit to rule because they Unable to confirm the existence of slaves in slavery, cannot bring them down to a state where the wealth of slaves Instead of eating, the slave has to be fed. In this bourgeois regime, society can no longer live, that is, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society ... The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are both inevitable. .... "

A Bengaluru techie’s email password is ‘Trump is King.’ He lays great emphasis on MAGA – Make America Great Again – and says he’ll change the password if Trump loses the 2020 US Presidential sweepstakes. But this time, MAGA is not the issue, China is! Not just for the Republicans but also for the Democrats. Covid-19 and China’s perceived role in the ‘making of coronavirus’ and contribution to its global spread have become election issues in the USA primarily because the American electorate agrees.