It’s very hard to convey the message in complete depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and also the indignity that individuals are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us to not complain about the Panademic Crisis as its an Natural Calamities & Corona catastrophe - it's an ACT OF GOD???? In today's articles we @ Mumbai Multimedia Studio will discuss the pros and cons of this untoward incident and sad events looming over our huge nation of the world "India"
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During a very polarising election campaign within the state of state in 2017, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, waded into the fray to stir things up even further. From a public podium, he accused the authorities – which was led by an opposition party – of pandering to the Muslim community by spending more on Muslim graveyards (kabristans) than on Hindu cremation grounds (shamshans), together with his customary braying sneer, within which every taunt and barb rises to a high note mid-sentence before it falls away in an exceedingly menacing echo, he stirred the gang. “If a kabristan is constructed during a village, a shamshan should even be constructed there,” he said.
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“Shamshan! Shamshan!” the mesmerised, adoring crowd echoed back. Perhaps he's happy now that the haunting image of the flames rising from the mass funerals in India’s cremation grounds is making the front page of international newspapers. which all the kabristans and shamshans in his country are working properly, in direct proportion to the populations they cater for, and much beyond their capacities.
“Can India, population 1.3 billion, be isolated?” the Washington Post asked rhetorically in a very recent editorial about India’s unfolding catastrophe and therefore the difficulty of containing new, fast-spreading Covid variants within national borders. “Not easily,” it replied. It’s unlikely this question was posed in quite the identical way when the coronavirus was raging through the united kingdom and Europe just some months ago. But we in India have little right to require offence, given our prime minister’s words at the globe Economic Forum in January this year.
Modi spoke at a time when people in Europe and also the US were suffering through the height of the second wave of the pandemic. He had not one word of sympathy to supply, only an extended, gloating boast about India’s infrastructure and Covid-preparedness. I downloaded the speech because I fear that when history is rewritten by the Modi regime, because it soon are going to be, it would disappear, or become hard to search out. Here are some priceless snippets:
“Friends, i've got brought the message of confidence, positivity and hope from 1.3 billion Indians amid these times of apprehension … it had been predicted that India would be the foremost affected country from corona everywhere the globe. it had been said that there would be a tsunami of corona infections in India, somebody said 700-800 million Indians would get infected while others said 2 million Indians would die.” “Friends, it'd not be advisable to evaluate India’s success therewith of another country. in an exceedingly country which is home to 18% of the planet population, that country has saved humanity from a giant disaster by containing corona effectively.”
Modi the magician takes a bow for saving humanity by containing the coronavirus effectively. Now that it seems that he has not contained it, can we complain about being viewed like we are radioactive? That other countries’ borders are being closed to us and flights are being cancelled? That we’re being sealed in with our virus and our prime minister, together with all the sickness, the anti-science, the hatred and therefore the idiocy that he, his party and its brand of politics represent? When the primary wave of Covid came to India so subsided last year, the govt and its supportive commentariat were triumphant. “India isn’t having a picnic,” tweeted Shekhar Gupta, the editor-in-chief of the web news site the Print. “But our drains aren’t packed 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're thinking that you’re god.” Leave aside the callous, disrespectful imagery – did we'd like a god to inform us that almost all pandemics have a second wave?
This one was predicted, although its virulence has taken even scientists and virologists rapidly. So where is that the Covid-specific infrastructure and also the “people’s movement” against the virus that Modi boasted about in his speech? Hospital beds are unavailable. Doctors and medical staff are at verge of collapse. Friends call with stories about wards with no staff and more dead patients than live ones. People are dying in hospital corridors, on roads and in their homes. Crematoriums in Delhi have run out of firewood. The forest department has had to grant special permission for the felling of city trees. Desperate people are using whatever kindling they will find. Parks and car parks are being changed into cremation grounds. It’s as if there’s an invisible UFO parked in our skies, sucking the air out of our lungs. An foray of a form we’ve never known.
Oxygen is that the new currency on India’s morbid new exchange. Senior politicians, journalists, lawyers – India’s elite – are on Twitter pleading for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders. The hidden marketplace for cylinders is booming. Oxygen saturation machines and medicines are hard to return by. There are markets for other things, too. At the underside end of the free market, a bribe to sneak a final examine your dearest, bagged and stacked in a very hospital mortuary. A surcharge for a priest who agrees to mention the ultimate prayers. Online medical consultancies during which desperate families are fleeced by ruthless doctors. At the highest end, you may have to sell your land and residential and burn up all rupee for treatment at a non-public hospital. Just the deposit alone, before they even conform to admit you, could set your family back a pair of generations.
None of this conveys the total depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and, above all, the indignity that folks are being subjected to. What happened to my young friend T is simply one in all hundreds, perhaps thousands of comparable stories in Delhi alone. T, who is in his 20s, lives in his parents’ tiny flat in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of Delhi. All three of them tested positive for Covid. His mother was critically ill. Since it had been within the period, he was lucky enough to search out a single bed for her. His father, diagnosed with severe bipolar depression, turned violent and commenced to harm himself. He stopped sleeping. He soiled himself. His psychiatrist was online trying to assist, although she also broke down from time to time because her husband had just died from Covid. She said T’s father needed hospitalisation, but since he was Covid positive there was no chance of that. So T stayed awake, night after night, holding his father down, sponging him, cleaning him up. every time I spoke to him I felt my very own breath falter. Finally, the message came: “Father’s dead.” He didn't die of Covid, but of a large spike in vital sign induced by a psychiatric meltdown induced by utter helplessness.
What to try and do with the body? I desperately called everybody I knew. Among those that responded was Anirban Bhattacharya, who works with the well-known social activist Harsh Mander. Bhattacharya is near to stand trial on a charge of sedition for a protest he helped organise on his university campus in 2016. Mander, who has not fully recovered from a savage case of Covid last year, is being threatened with arrest and also the closure of the orphanages he runs after he mobilised people against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and therefore the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed in December 2019, both of which blatantly discriminate against Muslims. Mander and Bhattacharya are among the various citizens who, within the absence of all types of governance, have founded helplines and emergency responses, and are running themselves ragged organising ambulances and coordinating funerals and therefore the transport of dead bodies. It’s not safe for these volunteers to try and do what they’re doing. during this wave of the pandemic, it’s the young who are falling, who are filling the medical aid units. When kids die, the older among us lose a touch of our will to measure.
Finally, T’s father was cremated. T and his mother are recovering.
There was also the Kumbh Mela to be organised, in order that countless Hindu pilgrims could crowd in an exceedingly settlement to wash within the Ganges and spread the virus even-handedly as they returned to their homes across the country, blessed and purified. This Kumbh rocks on, although Modi has gently suggested that it would be an inspiration for the holy dip to become “symbolic” – whatever which means. (Unlike what happened with people who attended a conference for the Islamic organisation Tablighi Jamaat last year, the media has not run a campaign against them calling them “corona jihadis” or accusing them of committing crimes against humanity.) there have been also those few thousand Rohingya refugees who had to be urgently deported back to the genocidal regime in Myanmar from where they'd fled – within the middle of a coup. (Once again, when our independent supreme court was petitioned on this matter, it concurred with the government’s view.)
So, as you'll tell, it’s been busy, busy, & busy.
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Over and specially this urgent activity, there's an election to be won within the state of West Bengal. This required our home minister, Modi’s Righthand Shri Amit Shah, to more or less abandon his cabinet duties and focus all his attention on Bengal for months, to disseminate his party’s murderous propaganda, to pit human against human in every little town and village. Geographically, West Bengal could be a small state. The election could have taken place in an exceedingly single day, and has done so within the past. But since it's new territory for the BJP, the party needed time to maneuver its cadres, many of who don't seem to be from Bengal, from constituency to constituency to oversee the voting. The election schedule was divided into eight phases, unfolded over a month, the last on 29 April. because the count of corona infections ticked up, the opposite political parties pleaded with the commission to rethink the election schedule.
The Election commission refused and dropped hard on the side of the BJP, and also the campaign continued. Who hasn’t seen the videos of the BJP’s star campaigner, the prime minister himself, triumphant and maskless, chatting with the maskless crowds, thanking people for initiating in unprecedented numbers? That was on 27 April, when the official number of daily infections was already rocketing upward of 250,000.
Now, as voting closes, Bengal is poised to become the new corona cauldron, with a brand new triple mutant strain called – guess what – the “Bengal strain”. Newspapers report that each person tested within the capital, Kolkata, is Covid positive. The BJP has declared that if it wins Bengal, it'll ensure people get free vaccines. And if it doesn’t?
Conclusion. This Corona Virus pandemic crisis may wreck the Indian economy upto large extent. The level of GDP may further fall, more so when India is not immune to the global recession. In fact, it is believed that India is more vulnerable, since its economy has already been ailing and in a deep-seated slowdown for several quarters, much before the COVID-19 outbreak became known. The Prime Minister of India, Modiji has already spoken of setting up an Economic Task Force to devise policy measures to tackle the economic challenges arising from COVID 19, as also on the stability of Indian economy. However, the concrete plans would have to be kept in place to support the economy and its recovery is the huge Question Mark...........
As the disruption from the virus progresses globally as well as within India, it is for us to forget, at least for the time being, all talking only about economic recovery, and instead join hands whole heartedly to tackle the outcome of COVID-19 at this stage..Karne gaye the Kuch aur - Kuch hogaya kuch kuch aur.....
Jai Maharashtra
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