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The Man Who Bent Light

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Contents

Editors Note

CHIRAG THAKKAR

Over a year and a half of the pandemic and still going, only a lot more nightmarish, deadly and devastating; of uncertainty and despair; moments of hope and the illusion of the return of normalcy; 70 days of lockdown in 2020 one of the harshest and longest in the world, and then some in 2021 in various shapes, duration, and size; the largest migration of people on foot since the bloody partition of India and Pakistan; over four lakh dead to the deadly virus, at least officially recorded and still counting; the underreporting of cases and deaths, now, an open secret; a broken healthcare system and a seemingly absent state. These are just some of the ways to describe over a year of the Covid-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc on this planets peoples.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the people several times since the virus spread throughout the world, usually at 8.00 p.m., and everyone paid attention, or those with radio devices, smart phones and television sets. Over time, these addresses were seen without any real value, only gathering irk, humour and rage

At the beginning of the year 2021, there were signs that things were improving; a promising spring was around the corner. Two Indian pharmaceutical companies had made headway in vaccine research and manufacturing, cases were at an all-time low and the first two phases of vaccinations were in full swing. Only everything came crumbling down. In January 2021, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Modi took digs at the world for warning India in early 2020 that it will be the worlds worst covid-affected nation with an alarmingly high number of deaths. He gloated, prematurely, of Indias supposed victory in conquering the covid battle.

The Union Health Ministry outraged people on more than an occasion. As early as March 2020, it said that Covid-19 is not a health emergency.

The Centre appeared to want to take credit for vaccination drives the Prime Ministers photo prominently displayed on vaccine certificate, but when the cases went up, the Centre conveniently blamed the states. People, too, were blamed for being irresponsible and the cause behind the widespread cases. The Central government, headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), never did once acknowledge that it errored in publicly supporting and greenlighting super-spreader religious events like the Kumbh Mela that were attended by millions of Indians and conducting political rallies in states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Assam right through a devastating second wave of the pandemic, believed to be caused by the mutated Delta variant of the virus.

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