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The Dark Hour: India Under Lockdowns

Aamir Peerzada, Anoo Bhuyan, MG Radhakrishnan, Kalpana Swaminathan, Ishrat Syed, Pooja Dhingra, Namita Bhandare, Omkar Goswami, Saba Naqvi and Kalpana Swaminathan

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At a mere four hours? notice, on March 24th 2020, Prime Minister Modi announced a lockdown to contain the most devastating pandemics soon to envelop India by jumpstarting an already-crumbling healthcare system. People stormed out to panic-buy ration stocks; India?s migrant working classes started walking back to the villages, left hungry and desola...te without homes, work and wages - a scene not very short of an apocalypse. Over two summers, India woke up to similar headlines: a broken healthcare system; a languishing economy; cases rising and falling; governments greenlighting religious, superspreader events that compounded the second wave; misled unlocking of life; underreporting of cases and deaths; lakhs dead to the virus and crores infected, and still counting. Over a year of tracking how the novel Coronavirus ravaged India?s society, economy, politics and culture, nine of India?s finest writers make sense of this difficult reality. The Dark Hour is a publisher?s anthology of specially commissioned long-form essays that unpack two ghastly summers of the Covid-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc on the many Indias within India.

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Authors

  • Born and brought up in Kashmir, Aamir Peerzada is a BBC Journalist based in Srinagar. He has previously worked with NDTV as a reporter and producer, where he went on to produce several award-winning documentary films.

  • Anoo Bhuyan is a multi-media journalist from Bengaluru, living in New Delhi. She closely covered the COVID19 pandemic in India. She has worked at The Wire; Outlook Magazine; IndiaSpend, The BBC and NPR, and comments on public policy at a number of Indian and foreign publications.

  • MG Radhakrishnan has four decades of experience in journalism. He is currently the Editor of Asianet News channel, based in Thiruvananthapuram. He has earlier worked with India Today and Mathrubhumi and has authored four books.

  • Surgeons Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Their book A Crown of Thorns—The Coronavirus & Us was published in August 2020. Their forthcoming book is titled A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

  • Surgeons Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Their book A Crown of Thorns—The Coronavirus & Us was published in August 2020. Their forthcoming book is titled A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

  • Pooja Dhingra is the founder of the Le15 chain of patisseries and café. She is an INK Fellow, and hosts an extremely popular podcast called #NoSugarCoat. She has authored three books - The Big Book of Treats; The Wholesome Kitchen; Can’t Believe It’s Eggless. She lives and works in Mumbai.

  • Namita Bhandare is a journalist with close to 30 years of experience with publications such as India Today, Sunday and Hindustan Times. In 2013, she was appointed India’s first gender editor for Mint. She is on the editorial board of the news website, Article-14. She writes almost exclusively on gender issues, including a regular column for the Hindustan Times. She lives in New Delhi.

  • Omkar Goswami is an economist, who has taught in India and abroad for 18 years. He was at Business India earlier, and was the chief economist of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He is also the founder of CERG Advisory, a consulting firm and author of three books, and over 70 refereed articles. He loves reading, music, films and escaping to the mountains when he can.

  • Saba Naqvi is a Delhi based journalist and the author of four books, mostly recently Politics of Jugaad and Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee To Modi. The former political editor of Outlook magazine, Naqvi is now a columnist and a familiar face on television as an election analyst and commentator. Soutik Biswas is the India Correspondent, and Features of Analysis Editor of BBC News Online. He is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford.

  • Surgeons Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Their book A Crown of Thorns—The Coronavirus & Us was published in August 2020. Their forthcoming book is titled A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

ISBN
9788195256662
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
232
Weight (kg)
0.6
Height (in)
10
Width (in)
8
Subject
Current Affairs & Politics
Published Date
20/10/21
Publisher
Roli Books

Authors

  • Born and brought up in Kashmir, Aamir Peerzada is a BBC Journalist based in Srinagar. He has previously worked with NDTV as a reporter and producer, where he went on to produce several award-winning documentary films.

  • Anoo Bhuyan is a multi-media journalist from Bengaluru, living in New Delhi. She closely covered the COVID19 pandemic in India. She has worked at The Wire; Outlook Magazine; IndiaSpend, The BBC and NPR, and comments on public policy at a number of Indian and foreign publications.

  • MG Radhakrishnan has four decades of experience in journalism. He is currently the Editor of Asianet News channel, based in Thiruvananthapuram. He has earlier worked with India Today and Mathrubhumi and has authored four books.

  • Surgeons Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Their book A Crown of Thorns—The Coronavirus & Us was published in August 2020. Their forthcoming book is titled A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

  • Surgeons Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Their book A Crown of Thorns—The Coronavirus & Us was published in August 2020. Their forthcoming book is titled A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

  • Pooja Dhingra is the founder of the Le15 chain of patisseries and café. She is an INK Fellow, and hosts an extremely popular podcast called #NoSugarCoat. She has authored three books - The Big Book of Treats; The Wholesome Kitchen; Can’t Believe It’s Eggless. She lives and works in Mumbai.

  • Namita Bhandare is a journalist with close to 30 years of experience with publications such as India Today, Sunday and Hindustan Times. In 2013, she was appointed India’s first gender editor for Mint. She is on the editorial board of the news website, Article-14. She writes almost exclusively on gender issues, including a regular column for the Hindustan Times. She lives in New Delhi.

  • Omkar Goswami is an economist, who has taught in India and abroad for 18 years. He was at Business India earlier, and was the chief economist of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He is also the founder of CERG Advisory, a consulting firm and author of three books, and over 70 refereed articles. He loves reading, music, films and escaping to the mountains when he can.

  • Saba Naqvi is a Delhi based journalist and the author of four books, mostly recently Politics of Jugaad and Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee To Modi. The former political editor of Outlook magazine, Naqvi is now a columnist and a familiar face on television as an election analyst and commentator. Soutik Biswas is the India Correspondent, and Features of Analysis Editor of BBC News Online. He is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford.

  • Surgeons Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Their book A Crown of Thorns—The Coronavirus & Us was published in August 2020. Their forthcoming book is titled A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

ISBN
9788195256662
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
232
Weight (kg)
0.6
Height (in)
10
Width (in)
8
Subject
Current Affairs & Politics
Published Date
20/10/21
Publisher
Roli Books