As someone rightly put, life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it, says a lot about our state of mind. So even in times of stress and anxiety, you can take proactive steps to lift your mood. Here are some excerpts from our conversation with Professor Kamlesh Singh from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi, about how to stay happy in troubling times
In recent years in India, minimum support price (MSP) and government procurement, especially of paddy and wheat, have been discussed widely, but these discussions have often drawn on evidence that is dated and incomplete. Consequently, such discussions have clouded the facts, resulting in a large number of factoids.
Virginia Eubanks’ widely acclaimed book, Automating Inequality, alerted us to the ways that automated decision-making tools exacerbated inequalities, especially by raising the barrier for people to receive services they are entitled to. The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies in India, even for essential services such as health and education, where access to them might be poor.