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Patralekha Chatterjee
About the AuthorPatralekha Chatterjee
Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
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    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

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    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

    Migrant workers and homeless people being made to do yoga at New Delhis Yamuna Sports Complex which was converted into a makeshift camp for those stranded in Delhi without a home. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
    Migrant workers' plight: Ignore at your own peril

    The majority of stranded workers were not able to recall the name of the builder or company they have been working for

    17 April 2020 6:29 PM IST

    Migrant workers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
    Dev 360: Lockdown, long march: Catastrophe looming

    If we don't take immediate measures to mitigate the larger human crisis the lockdown has triggered, we are heading...

    2 April 2020 1:54 PM IST

    A volunteer distributes masks outside a government hospital as a precaution against COVID-19 in Jammu on March 16, 2020. (AP)Opinion
    Dev 360: Navigating uncertainty in the time of coronavirus

    Let's not be fixated on daily 'numbers'; let's look at preparedness

    19 March 2020 8:33 AM IST

    A families leaves riot-affected Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
    After Delhi burns, there is despair, but also hope

    Journalists reporting the violence in northeast Delhi have been explicitly asked whether they were Hindu or Muslim.

    6 March 2020 6:46 AM IST

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