Tamil Nadu government has taken the right call in allowing the Sterlite copper plant at Thoothukudi to reopen if only to supply oxygen from machinery integral to its factory. It is also a good gesture by the company to offer to do this in spite of being denied copper production.
Good that US is helping India now. But even a timely tweet would have been better
Good the US has responded to India’s crisis. It’s a tough lesson for Biden. The world has changed, new alliances have emerged. The US must be more agile and can’t let doubts fester. Even a timely tweet would’ve helped. The US-India alliance is still in infancy. It needs careful nursing.
India has a robust emergency response system. Just no leader
India has a robust emergency response system. Civil defence, home guards, National Disaster Rescue Force and the fully vaccinated armed forces. A leadership to rally them is missing. It’s ‘every person for themselves,’ with some helping others, and Twitter is India’s control room. This meltdown is hurting India and Indians.
Beg, borrow, steal. Human life depends on getting enough oxygen to our hospitals. Decisions taken in public interest, even if they mean cutting corners, will always be praised.
As children, we would read interviews of actors in Stardust saying, I eat, breathe and sleep films. When politics, elections, even the stratagems to form a government after an election has been lost, become a 24 / 7 / 365 obsession, governance is bound to suffer. What would be the sense of joy if Bengal is won on 2nd May amidst so much pain and grief over the entire subcontinent. The mixed emotions Emperor Ashoka felt after winning the Kalinga War.
India has a robust emergency response system. Just no leader SO GET RID OF MODI
These are the days when Covid tells India “The Emperor has no clothes”, unfortunately the Tailors happened to be ruling us