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"India Beat All Odds In Coronavirus Fight," Says PM Modi

hey that has,been the case especially pakistan and other countries with with very limited resources and huge populations your income per capita is very poor so you guys are.not revealing the truth about covid.you live in closed country's like north Korea,no one knows the truth
And the matter of the fact is that despite what you are saying, people in Pakistan are not dying on roads and we are not the ones getting world aid of oxygen and ventilators. Our cases are underreported as well but at least we are not in denial.
With his phony amitabh bachchan style speech, this Modi has a habit of falling flat on his face - but Indians don't seem to recognize humiliation when they see it any more.

Modi bragged about beating covid, now his country is the worst affected on Earth.

He bragged about 'vaccine diplomacy' - and then failed to deliver the vaccines as agreed, throwing diplomacy into the ditch.

His party loudly blamed tableeghi Muslims for spreading Covid, and then had to watch as 3m kumbh Mela visitors caused the super spreader event.

His gaffes go right back to the start of his rule. Who can forget his disastrous demonetisation drive and his chest thumping over the Pak border only to see an Indian plane shot down.

I've heard of shooting yourself in the foot, this guy is machine gunning the entire clip into his foot.
And andh bhakts still love him.
 
With his phony amitabh bachchan style speech, this Modi has a habit of falling flat on his face - but Indians don't seem to recognize humiliation when they see it any more.

Modi bragged about beating covid, now his country is the worst affected on Earth.

He bragged about 'vaccine diplomacy' - and then failed to deliver the vaccines as agreed, throwing diplomacy into the ditch.

His party loudly blamed tableeghi Muslims for spreading Covid, and then had to watch as 3m kumbh Mela visitors caused the super spreader event.

His gaffes go right back to the start of his rule. Who can forget his disastrous demonetisation drive and his chest thumping over the Pak border only to see an Indian plane shot down.

I've heard of shooting yourself in the foot, this guy is machine gunning the entire clip into his foot.

None of what you said matters when it comes to election time, because India is a post-truth society. Your average Hindu thinks cow dung and urine cure covid and that ancient Indians travelled on spaceships.
 
An elephant never minds barking dogs', but stupidity is that the dog 'keeps barking even with no reaction' from the elephant.
 
surrendera modi is right...india did beat all the odds in the covid19 pandemic. odds were that most of the nation would've had vaccines readily available with plenty of oxygen tanks & ventilators with hospital beds by now like most countries but india has impressed the whole world by making sure that the vaccines are out of everyone's reach with a chronic shortage of oxygen tanks & ventilators along with hospital beds. and india astounded the entire world by impressively depriving most indian healthcare workers of personal protective equipment. well done surrendera modi...
 
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None of what you said matters when it comes to election time, because India is a post-truth society. Your average Hindu thinks cow dung and urine cure covid and that ancient Indians travelled on spaceships.

It doesn't matter because Modi will invent a way to blame Muslims, Pakistan or China for the whole mess as usual. And Indians will lap it up as always. They are happy to endure death as long as Muslims are punished.
 
An elephant never minds barking dogs', but stupidity is that the dog 'keeps barking even with no reaction' from the elephant.
erm...there's no reaction from the elephant because it's DEAD FROM COVID!
 


Prioritising image management over planning has led to India's Covid catastrophe
Prime minister Narendra Modi prefers to sow conflict and division than take proper control of what is now an international crisis
Family members of a man who died of the coronavirus mourn before his cremation near Bengaluru, India
Family members of a man who died of the coronavirus mourn before his cremation near Bengaluru, India CREDIT: SAMUEL RAJKUMAR/REUTERS
  • Mohamed Zeeshan
27 MAY 2021 • 8:00 AM


As more than 3,000 Indians were dying from Covid-19 each day at the end of April, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an appeal on Twitter: “Last phase of the 2021 West Bengal elections takes place today. In line with the Covid-19 protocols, I call upon people to cast their vote and enrich the festival of democracy.”
It was a sobering reflection of what India’s fabled democracy has been reduced to: an empty electoral charade, devoid of governance. Despite cases rising rapidly in West Bengal, the Election Commission refused to cut short the drawn-out, eight-phase polling schedule in the state.
While the refusal to postpone the election was unforgivable, perhaps even worse was the government's inaction in the face of the collapse of India’s public health system, particularly when it had been given ample warning of the impending disaster.
A parliamentary committee report warned of a second Covid-19 wave as far back as November 2020 and highlighted shortages in oxygen and hospital beds. But ministers publicly declared that India had won its war against the virus, as they turned to electioneering in multiple states.
A triumphalist media bought the narrative and ran jingoistic stories on how India had handled the pandemic far better than the West. Data on low mortality rates was blindly cited, even though it was clear that there had been huge undercounting of deaths.
But the lack of accountability did not begin there: at the start of the pandemic Mr Modi set up a crowdsourced fund called PM-CARES, which was meant to pay for health facilities and Covid-19 research, but it was deliberately kept beyond the control of state auditors.
Several months later, there is still no public database on the money the fund contains or how it has been used
. It certainly does not seem to have gone towards vaccination, which has now been opened to all citizens over the age of 18, as several states have said that they have insufficient supply. Yet, the government has made no public plan for how and when it will meet this need.
In place of planning and preparation, Mr Modi’s ministers continue to prioritise image management.
When foreign diplomats in New Delhi - most notably from New Zealand and the Philippines - posted appeals on social media for oxygen cylinders for their sick staff, S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, alleged on Twitter that the demands were fake.
He said the opposition Congress party had staged the appeals for “cheap publicity”. Days earlier, he had used a meeting with top Indian diplomats to urge them to prioritise the management of headlines in the world press, which he called a “one-sided” narrative.
India’s Covid-19 catastrophe has been many years in the making. In the midst of a pandemic, a country requires the full strength of its state institutions and civil society to function. But Mr Modi’s style of politics and governance has weakened both.

Mr Modi has followed a politics of identity polarisation that has encouraged conflict between communities rather than cooperation. In his home state of Gujarat, leaders from his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) objected to the presence of Muslim volunteers in Hindu crematoria.

Such deeply suspicious politics has sowed a beggar-thy-neighbour attitude – groups fighting each other for the reservation of more government jobs or seats in parliament for their own community; a temple being built in place of a mosque; communities raising the alarm over slight decreases in their share of the population.

By contrast, investment in public health infrastructure – which would have benefited everyone – was not seen as important. While Mr Modi has mobilised billions of dollars for grand statues, opulent temples and communally-inspired citizenship registries, India spends a little more than one per cent of GDP on healthcare each year.

The Hindu nationalist inferiority complex has also affected India’s scientific community. Hindu nationalists have long believed that India’s ancient civilization does not get its fair share of praise in global discourse. To remedy this, Mr Modi and others have advanced several unfounded claims, including that ancient Indians flew guided missiles and performed plastic surgery.

During the pandemic, this phenomenon has become far worse, with several quack cures being promoted for the virus. Earlier this year, Mr Modi’s health minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, was lambasted by the Indian Medical Association after he publicly endorsed an unproven indigenous cure for Covid-19, promoted by the Hindu religious leader, Baba Ramdev.

India’s apocalyptic second wave is now an international crisis. The virus is mutating and new variants can threaten to prolong the pandemic worldwide by potentially making vaccination less effective. India has to urgently find ways to stem the transmission of the virus and stop the slide. But that requires a change in its politics.

  • Mohamed Zeeshan is the author of Flying Blind: India’s Quest for Global Leadership (Penguin) and editor-in-chief of Freedom Gazette
 
On another notes - many in my country are wish for his Gupta bastards to rot in that covid hell. God works in mysterious ways.
Most of the south African colleagues... (not many around tbh) they have a universal hatred towards Guptas in particular and dare I say Indian business conglomerate in SA in general.
I have been planning to read on this for a while now. Its an interesting topic to say the least
 

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