Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
“India isn’t having a picnic,”
“But our drains aren’t choked with bodies, hospitals aren’t out of beds, nor crematoriums & graveyards out of wood or space. Too good to be true? Bring data if you disagree. Unless you think you’re god.”
In your face.
Felt disturbed to read a recent Scroll column about how Covid is claiming lives in rural Uttar Pradesh. NRHM had started in the state with a major scam. Bahut dheeraj hai hamare desh vasiyon ko. Perhaps that is why they have such an unshakeable faith in God.
Dr Tanvi Madan’s tweets of 28th April set a breathtakingly modest bar for devotion to the public by the political class. Not just in the most soul destroying health emergency in our lifetimes, even in normal times in a poor country that is also a democracy, pursuit of power and political objectives need not be seen as completely antithetical to public welfare. 2. India is now accepting foreign aid as humbly as Nepal did after the earthquake. What Ms Jyoti Malhotra calls swagger is a little feeble now.
Mr. Shekhar Gupta’s tweet last year “India isn’t having a picnic, But our drains aren’t choked with bodies, hospitals aren’t out of beds, nor crematoriums & graveyards out of wood or space. Too good to be true? Bring data if you disagree. Unless you think you’re god.” could you please run a story on this with Shekhar Gupta’s pov. Since it is assumed he is influential what is his take on last year’s tweet.
“India isn’t having a picnic,”
“But our drains aren’t choked with bodies, hospitals aren’t out of beds, nor crematoriums & graveyards out of wood or space. Too good to be true? Bring data if you disagree. Unless you think you’re god.”
In your face.
Felt disturbed to read a recent Scroll column about how Covid is claiming lives in rural Uttar Pradesh. NRHM had started in the state with a major scam. Bahut dheeraj hai hamare desh vasiyon ko. Perhaps that is why they have such an unshakeable faith in God.
Dr Tanvi Madan’s tweets of 28th April set a breathtakingly modest bar for devotion to the public by the political class. Not just in the most soul destroying health emergency in our lifetimes, even in normal times in a poor country that is also a democracy, pursuit of power and political objectives need not be seen as completely antithetical to public welfare. 2. India is now accepting foreign aid as humbly as Nepal did after the earthquake. What Ms Jyoti Malhotra calls swagger is a little feeble now.
Mr. Shekhar Gupta’s tweet last year “India isn’t having a picnic, But our drains aren’t choked with bodies, hospitals aren’t out of beds, nor crematoriums & graveyards out of wood or space. Too good to be true? Bring data if you disagree. Unless you think you’re god.” could you please run a story on this with Shekhar Gupta’s pov. Since it is assumed he is influential what is his take on last year’s tweet.