FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sep 12, 2020
3 minutes
(Aroon Purie)
On March 24, at 8 pm, India imposed one of the severest lockdowns in the world due to the corona pandemic. On that day, there were 574 Covid-19 cases and one death in India. Consequently, as the economist Kaushik Basu stated, “you froze the economy totally and allowed a whole lot of people to be scattered all over—so the germs were spreading…” The cost-benefit of the extent of the lockdown has been debated endlessly, but mainly in the realm of conjecture. It was a difficult
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