P Sainath

The Covid-19 pandemic was an "extraordinary revelatory moment" in the history of India when the elements of inequalities in the society were laid bare, columnist and writer P Sainath said on Wednesday. Sainath said even though the inequalities existed earlier, it was the coronavirus pandemic that gave a "most searing, unsparing, brilliant and thorough autopsy of the society". "It showed us the society we are. What it showed was there earlier also, but this time we couldn't turn our heads away," Sainath said at the Sunil Memorial Lecture, which was held in the memory of socialist leader Sunil Gupta, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Speaking on the topic "India in the age of inequality", he said it became difficult for people to "turn their heads away from the corpse of Indian inequalities" during the time. "The corpse is on the table and every nerve, sinew, vein, artery, every bone, organ is on naked display. All the elements of our inequalities were laid bare on the

It is time now that the "non-farmer" section of the society join peasants in their protest against the three farm laws, said agriculture expert-journalist P Sainath

While the Kisan Sabha had managed to mobilise farmers for most recent farm protests across the country, it hadn't always received commensurate media space