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This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his governmentIt is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime mi…
Instead of sequencing or data collection, the government is offering patriotic bluster in the face of this deadly second waveThe variant that threatens the British summer has already done far more damage in India. In October last year a sample from the…
Despite enforcing one of the strictest lockdowns last year, the authorities seem unable to cope with a renewed Covid surgeAt 7.52pm on 16 April, Vinay Srivastava, a 65-year-old freelance journalist in Lucknow, the capital city of India’s largest state …
Unable to expand testing or hospital capacity, Narendra Modi’s administration has turned to bluster and brute force The response to the spread of coronavirus that most Indians are talking about this week is not an innovation in contact tracing or a big…