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Fear stalks every family in India .....funeral pyres lit under every home. It’s horrifying but this disaster was foreseeable.
The world’s biggest producer of vaccines, exported them, held election rallies and festivals and failed to invest in health. #indiacovid
“We, who grew up in India and moved away—India’s diaspora numbers around 18 million worldwide—are in a lesser circle of hell than our beloved friends and family back home. But it is a kind of hell for us, too—one of helplessness and guilt.” @AatishTaseer https://t.co/IZg7IWRD96
No other way to put this.
India is now recording more daily cases than the US, Brazil, Turkey and France put together, but the Modi government’s handling has been shambolic—led by the Prime Minister himself, I write for @ForeignPolicy
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