Author: Minakshi Biswas Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, BHK College, West Bengal State University.   Abstract: The ongoing pandemic caused by SARS CoV-2 has led to an unprecedented healthcare emergency across the globe. It has not only posed an extreme challenge to the healthcare of common masses but has also wrecked…

  Authors: Tuisha Sircar and Pranav Menon First Author Affiliation: Independent Researcher. Second Author Affiliation: Research Scholar, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.   Abstract: The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has fostered a technological determinism for deploying digital contact tracing tools across the globe. Such an overt…

Author: Nibedita Roy Author Affiliation: Research Scholar, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, J.N.U, New Delhi.   Abstract: The paper aims to explore the lived experience of sex workers amidst the pandemic and the induced lockdown. It also attempts to question the idea of safe workspace, the sustainability of ‘social distancing’ in the context…

  Author: Rituraj Sharma Author Affiliation: Research Scholar, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.   Abstract: This work attempts to provide the centre stage to children’s views and their voices in the research. Situated at the interface of childhood studies, urban design and mental health, this work…

Author: Sweta Author Affiliation: Research Scholar, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.   Abstract: This article explores the vulnerable conditions of informal labourers during the coronavirus induced lockdown. The lockdown brought the economy at a standstill across India. Millions of labourers lost their jobs which also forced…

  Author: Pushpa Singh Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi.   Abstract: Amid the unprecedented crisis created by Covid-19, there has emerged a fresh perspective on food and farming, reaffirming our faith in the resilience of the local food production system. The vagaries of pandemic has led us…

  Author: Reena Devi Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Kamala Nehru College.   Abstract: In India, whilst contribution of agriculture to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has declined considerably over the years (i.e. only 14.39 percent of GDP during 2018-19), agriculture still remains a dominant mainstay of the rural economy as 53.2 percent of…

  Authors: Renu Soni, Kirti Sharma, Sanchita Kumar and Samira Chugh First Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Gargi College, University of Delhi; Second Author Affiliation: Graduate student, Department of Botany, Gargi College, University of Delhi; Third Author Affiliation: Graduate student, Department of Botany, Gargi College, University of Delhi; Fourth Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor,…

  Author: Meena Kumari Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi.   Abstract: This article is an attempt to explore major shifts in the food policy framework of India. Though the food policy in India experienced various changes in pre-reform period i.e before 1991and during the reform period…

  Authors: Monica Prabhakar and Soma Sengupta First Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. Second Author Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi.   Abstract: Covid-19 has impacted all sectors of the country including the education sector. In this new normal situation, though…