Rethinking Media and Socio-Cultural Change: India and the Globe in Times of Pandemic

The advent of the global pandemic of Coronavirus or Covid-19 has created a major global shock across different cultural economies and disabled core societal governance structures leading to an unexpected halt and limited estimation of the challenges and risks that it may incept over the time. Issues of geopolitical dysfunctions civil rights and democracy educational and market imbalances have led to different state institutions to revise its strategies of operations and bring about alternative solutions both at the policy and programme level to address them. Despite the efforts there is still a fear of socio-economic socio-cultural and political risks in terms of unequal impact across various social groups and territories in terms of rights accessibility and participation due to the pandemic and its recession both in the short and long term period.