: Harsh Mander: Despite warnings, Modi government had let India sleepwalk into the second wave #IndiaNEWS Along with grief, indeed because of our grief, we must also give ourselves spaces for rage.Rage

Harsh Mander: Despite warnings, Modi government had let India sleepwalk into the second wave #IndiaNEWS
Along with grief, indeed because of our grief, we must also give ourselves spaces for rage.Rage for the rotting human corpses that floated in rivers, corpses that burnt through nights and days on street corners, or were buried in anonymous mass shallow graves. Rage for the people who died profoundly lonely deaths, inside hospitals separated while dying and often even after death from everyone they had loved. Rage for people who dies choking for oxygen outside hospitals. Rage because there were just not enough hospital beds, oxygen, doctors, nurses, medicines. Rage for a government that did not plan for medical oxygen, new hospital infrastructure, vaccinations, testing kits, medicines, ambulances and hearses. Rage for a public health system built primarily on private profit, that failed people when they needed it most.Rage because India probably lost more people than any other country on the planet, to Covid-19, and to a myriad more health crises caused by the abrupt and cruel closure of our health systems, to hunger and joblessness, and to despair. Rage for literally lakhs of grievable lives, lives that could have been saved if only we had a government that cared.Rage because the stunningly reckless hubris of the Prime Minister’s centralised and opaque decision-making....Read more

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