Ecovid-19 the Economy and the Virus

Ecovid-19 the Economy and the Virus

SPECIAL DIGITAL ISSUE www.outlookindia.com April 6, 2020 Rs 60 eCOVID-19 The Economy and The Virus RNI NO. 7044/1961 MANAGING EDITOR, OUTLOOK ‹ N A V I G A T O R › EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ruben Banerjee MANAGING EDITOR Sunil Menon FROM EXECUTIVE EDITOR Satish Padmanabhan FOREIGN EDITOR Pranay Sharma THE POLITICAL EDITOR Bhavna Vij-Aurora SENIOR EDITOR Giridhar Jha (Mumbai) CHIEF ART DIRECTOR Deepak Sharma EDITOR WRITERS Lola Nayar, Qaiser Mohammad Ali (Senior Associate Editors), G.C. Shekhar (Associate Editor), Jeevan Prakash Sharma (Senior Assistant Editor), Ajay Sukumaran, Puneet Nicholas Yadav, Jyotika Sood, Lachmi Deb Roy (Assistant Editors), Naseer Ganai (Senior Special Correspondent), Preetha Nair (Special Correspondent), Salik Ahmad (Senior Correspondent) COPY DESK Rituparna Kakoty (Senior Associate Editor), Anupam Bordoloi, Saikat Niyogi, Satyadeep (Associate Editors), Syed Saad Ahmed (Assistant Editor) PHOTOGRAPHERS S. Rakshit (Chief Photo Coordinator), Jitender Gupta (Photo Editor), Tribhuvan Tiwari (Deputy Photo Editor), Sandipan Chatterjee, Apoorva Salkade (Sr Photographers), Suresh Kumar Pandey (Staff Photographer) J.S. Adhikari (Sr Photo Researcher), RUBEN BANERJEE U. Suresh Kumar (Digital Library) Digitally Yours EDITOR IN CHIEF DESIGN Saji C.S. (Chief Designer), Leela (Senior Designer), Devi Prasad, Padam Gupta (Sr DTP Operators) the near-collapse of our daily routine. Printing a magazine DIGITAL Neha Mahajan (Associate Editor), Soumitra Mishra (Digital Consultant), when movements are severely restricted poses immense Jayanta Oinam (Assistant Editor), challenges. Even if we print, distribution of copies at a time Mirza Arif Beg (Special Correspondent), Neelav Chakravarti (Senior when flight and train services have been halted, and sever- Correspondent), Charupadma Pati (Trainee EAR is in the air and I am Journalist), Suraj Wadhwa (Chief not entirely exempt from it. al states have ordered border closures, would be a veritable Graphic Designer), nightmare. Though all of us are currently under stress, it Editorial Manager & Chief Librarian Alka Gupta Ever since the COVID-19 still makes sense to think rationally. And this decision of BUSINESS OFFICE pandemic began wreaking CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Indranil Roy COVER STORY havoc, prompting our bus- ours, though a difficult one, has been made after much con- PUBLISHER Sandip Kumar Ghosh 20 How the biggest global issue after the Great SR VICE PRESIDENT Meenakshi Akash tling and normally boister- sideration. Among everything else, we don’t want our staff VICE PRESIDENTS Shrutika Dewan, Depression will impact the economy—and you to take unnecessary risks. At the same time, we do not wish Diwan Singh Bisht ous nation to slip into an SR GENERAL MANAGERS Kabir Khattar (Corp), to enhance your exposure to anything that has passed Debabani Tagore, Shailender Vohra CONCRETE MEASURES eerily quiet lockdown, I GENERAL MANAGERS Sasidharan Kollery, through several hands, increasing the risk of a possible Shashank Dixit The economy may catch the flu, but a recovery F have started displaying a contamination. CHIEF MANAGER Shekhar Kumar Pandey phobia—that of touching doorknobs. Be it MANAGERS Shekhar Suvarana, Sudha Sharma could be in sight for the real estate sector We are proud that the relationship that Outlook has had CIRCULATION & SUBSCRIPTION Anindya at home or office, I am rudely kicking open Banerjee, Gagan Kohli, G. 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