2020 was a bleak year for individual freedom. Governments across the world fought the Covid pandemic through liberty-quashing lockdowns. In March, India slammed down what has been described as one of the world’s harshest lockdowns. The economy collapsed. Millions of migrant workers took to the streets to walk thousands of miles home. As the year draws to a close, night curfew is back in Maharashtra and uncertainty persists over the spread of coronavirus. There is no uncertainty however on the fact that overwhelming state power is now intruding into and controlling our lives.
Uday Deb
2020 was the year of the Big State. Today the state can constrain fundamental freedoms and personal liberty in unprecedented ways. Yes, a health pandemic demands intelligent Read More
