ThePrint report about 98 per cent of oximeters sold in India being Made-in-China and recent heavy imports of Covid medical equipment is a lesson for ‘swadeshi’ and boycott-China proponents. ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ is catchy, but a fake call to political nationalism. Forget fragile egos, self-reliance can’t work outside global supply chains.
India’s pedestrian vaccination programme a national embarrassment, slow pace is big failure
That most of India is unlikely to start vaccinating all adults from 1 May is a shame. But a bigger failure is the slow pace of vaccination for the existing categories, averaging less than 25 lakh for the last 10 days. India’s pedestrian vaccination programme has been a national embarrassment.
Soli Sorabjee was a guardian of Indian liberalism and civil rights
In legal and constitutional giant Soli Sorabjee’s death, India lost a guardian of liberalism and civil rights. Besides having been attorney general, he was an inspiration for the many defining moments of Indian constitutional history. Yet, Jazz remained Sorabjee’s “first love,” an art that helped him “improvise situations in courts.”