COVID-19 Pandemic

Listen To Our Episodes On COVID-19 Pandemic

With India entering a critical phase in the fight against this pandemic, we are amplifying our coverage of this outbreak. Here is a list of episodes we have produced so far which looks at what COVID-19 is, what we know so far about it and India’s preparedness; how health inequities and access to health matter in times of pandemic; what social distancing potentially means for the poor of India.

Dec 31, 2020

Quest for blood- How COVID-19 pandemic hurt children with thalassaemia
Thalassaemia is a rare blood disorder which causes the blood to have less haemoglobin. Children suffering from thalassemia need regular blood transfusions- once every fortnight to 20 days. In some cities of the...

25 mins

Oct 22, 2020

Parenting a rare child
Being rare is not a death sentence, and nobody can understand this better than a parent of a rare child. In this episode, host Avantika Shrivastava speaks with Tresa Joseph whose daughter has been diagnosed wit...

31 mins

Sep 14, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 & lockdown on people with rare diseases
More than 1 million Indians have been taken ill by the COVID-19 virus, but what has been the human cost on an extremely vulnerable section of the country’s population – people living with rare disease? The firs...

15 mins

Jul 08, 2021

Making environment political: The Save Mollem movement
In April 2020 India’s environment ministry gave wildlife clearance to two infrastructure projects waiting for approval in Goa. This was another step towards allowing trees to be cut in the forests of Mollem tha...

11 mins

Dec 23, 2020

Save Mollem campaign - Goan Youth speak
During the COVID lockdown, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change gave many virtual environmental clearances with little or no consultation with the public. Three such environmental clearances i...

21 mins

Oct 28, 2020

Digital Platformisation of Domestic Work
The rise of the gig economy and its digital mediation has led to various online platforms for workers. Some such platforms are targeted towards domestic workers. In India, domestic workers are mostly women from...

45 mins

Oct 19, 2020

Technology-mediated exclusion for social protection schemes for women
An important way to ensure that health pandemics do not turn into socio-economic crises is through social protection, which ensures that the livelihoods of the poor and marginalised remain protected. During COV...

36 mins

Sep 30, 2020

Gendered access to Internet at home during COVID-19
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit India, and a national lockdown was ordered, we were pushed back into the space of our homes. Because of this, our ability to survive and continue livelihoods has been hinged on ou...

42 mins

Aug 31, 2020

Future of Labour Post COVID-19: Part 3
COVID has accelerated automation of labour and has forced monitoring of workers and their bodies. This excessive collection of data of labour not only brings in the question of violations of their right to priv...

23 mins

Aug 31, 2020

Future of Labour Post COVID-19: Part 2
COVID has accelerated automation of labour and has forced monitoring of workers and their bodies. This excessive collection of data of labour not only brings in the question of violations of their right to priv...

19 mins