India celebrated a milestone in its vaccination drive, which is not even covering half the population.
We should rather mourn the deaths that were caused in India due to Covid that have resulted in misery and financial crisis to the families. We should cry over spiraling burden of prices of all essential commodities, unemployment, atrocities against poor and women belonging to the minorities.
There is nothing better to celebrate in India so the govt creates opportunities to gloat and publicise an event which no nation in the world has done when the vaccination count is near total or more than half. The focus of our govt’s priorities and preferences are misplaced by directing its energies to create euphoria. The less said of all its slogans and promises that are a joke on its citizenry.
NELSON LOPES, Via email
