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Tag: COVID-19

Climate Change Is About to Cause a Viral Explosion
A new study shows that climate change will lead to altered migration patterns for thousands of animals, resulting in close to 15,000 new interspecies viral transmission events by the …

Climate Change Chapters Dropped From Syllabus to Be Restored, Says Education Minister
The forum Teachers Against the Climate Crisis had severely criticised the move to cut crucial chapters on climate change in several textbooks, saying different facets of the crisis need …

Variations in Living with Variants
A poem on how two years of working and schooling from home has taken its toll on the one person everyone sees but no one acknowledges – the woman …

On Entering My Teens During the Pandemic
'Everyone is coming – not to save me, but to give their evaluations.'

Of Reality and Death
A poem on how the pandemic has exposed the gaps when it comes to privilege – even between a husband and a wife living in the same home.

In UP, MBBS Students and Their Parents Face Tough Choice: Beat COVID or Give Exams
MBBS students in the state have been made to sit for offline exams – even as the rest of the state, and the country, scrambles to deal with the …

Notes from Jaipur on How School Closures Impacted Children from Marginalised Communities
A survey carried out in Jaipur's Kathputli Nagar Basti and Hathroi areas has revealed that several children completely forgot what they had learnt before the lockdown was imposed due …