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Chandrika Parmar

Chandrika Parmar
Associate professor at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
Health care

Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

May 2, 2023 • by Chandrika Parmar and Shiv Visvanathan
Lockdowns reflect the arbitrariness of the state, an absence of sociological literacy about urban-rural differences, a sense of management as control without the nuances of social science that the diversity of India desperately needs....

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