By Matters India Reporter Junagadh, Dec 20, 2021: A Catholic parish in the western Indian state of Gujarat has decided to put on hold external celebrations of Christmas to sympathize with the families that have lost their relatives in the Covid pandemic. “This year the parish has decided not toContinue Reading
It was three weeks ago when journalists combing obituary pages in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat found authorities were concealing Covid-19 deaths that people started asking hard questions about the real number of Indian coronavirus fatalities. Now, epidemiologists and scientists around the world are struggling to solveContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: European powers were notorious for colonizing weaker, underdeveloped nations by engaging them on the battlefield, shrewdly applying the then highly effective strategy, Divide and Conquer. Coming from the Latin divide et impera, in politics and sociology, the term ‘Divide and Conquer’ denotes appropriating and consolidatingContinue Reading
New Delhi: Aerial photographs of cremations in Delhi – innumerable pyres in a row that even landed on the front pages of foreign publications – have been indicating since last week that the actual number of deaths from Covid might be different from the official figures. After visiting the city’sContinue Reading
New Delhi: At Delhi’s biggest crematorium, Nigambodh Ghat, the number of cremations has gone up from 15 per day to over 30 as Covid-19-related deaths in the national capital continue to rise. Delhi recorded 104 deaths due to coronavirus on April 14, the highest since November 20. The same day,Continue Reading