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Pandemic saga: Desperate attempt to sell old wine in a new bottle

Ecostar Editor MagMarch 9, 20212294 Views0

Routinely, a section defies government orders, States defy Central orders, farmers defy farm laws. With the same equation, if people defy orders of lockdown, unafraid of infection and finding it unnecessary, a legible question of what is immoral in it is unanswerable. Politicians and bureaucrats have become great fans of the highly disgusting and notorious word “lockdown“, which appeared in Maharashtra’s air again amid the "rising number" of Covid-19 cases. At the fag-end of February 2021, eleven months after the doomed lockdown was set out, the threat of a similar lockdown would only mean hell. According to Dr Giridhara Babu, an epidemiologist, “Lockdown was necessary in March 2020 as the health system had to be upgraded to ensure adequate oxygen supplies, medicines as well as human re...

Guest Column

A lesson from the pandemic

Ecostar Editor MagFebruary 15, 20211432 Views0

Dr. Sashikala Panickar (PHD in Polymer Science from IIT Mumbai) The world lost its battle to the virus, an invisible particle. It has changed human behavior, the way people do business and the way the people live, writes Dr. Sashikala Panickar, Founder and Chairperson, Sachin Specialty Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. The calendar 2020, that has now turned out, began with news of unusual pneumonia caused by a viral infection. The case was first reported in the wet market of Wuhan, in the Hubei province of China. At that time, I never thought the case was worthy of a news- paper report. But inside pages of news- papers used to carry small reports of the virus, which was called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, which became infamous by the name Covid-19. Gradually, the size of...

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Tears of garment industry: Not so colourful for another year

Ecostar Editor MagOctober 22, 20202531 Views0

The sector sees no hope of revival for another one year, as the pandemic is feared to swallow two more festival seasons. Human beings will never stop wearing clothes. People will never stop buying garments. Still, the garment industry has lost its hopes. The industry, dominated largely by unorganized players and with a high level of micro sectors’ involvement as an outsourcing destination, feels the pain with the micro sector losing their base. The demonetization, GST implementation and now the worse lockdown kept them on a deathbed. The garment industry has been passing through a long-drawn bad phase. No industry, as important as the garment sector ever faced a crisis for as long a period as five years. This sector has been suffering for over five years, because of the three major ...