As late as January 2021, the Union health minister had promised that Covid 19 vaccines would be free for everybody. But the just announced price sheets for vaccines go back on the promise of free vaccines for all. Pocketing super profits after using public funds for production of vaccines, that too during a massive humanitarian crisis […]
Contractual workers of the pharmaceutical company’s manufacturing unit located in Samardung, South Sikkim have been protesting the sacking of 15 of their colleagues since 1st Feb. Though the dharna was called off on Monday, the movement has left the pharma company and ruling party’s anti-labour policies exposed. A Groundxero report in consultation with Knock Sikkim. […]
In the history of industrial pollution in India, disasters like Bhopal and resistances like Thoothukudi are watershed moments. In most other such cases, the disaster is more of a slow, everyday process, while the resistance is slow and rendered invisible by the powers that be. In this series, the GroundXero Science Desk unearths the stories […]
In the history of industrial pollution in India, both Bhopal and Thoothukudi must be seen as watershed moments, either in terms of the disasters themselves, or in terms of the resistances that followed. In most other such cases, the disaster is felt as a slow, everyday process – as something chronic. And the resistance is […]