Mon, 26 Apr 2021 10:53 UTC
The mainstream media's reporting on the 'COVID crisis' in India has clearly been governed by a global approach to messaging that appears to aim at ramping up fear of 'new variants' and coerce compliance to vaccination during a period of increasing resistance, both in India and abroad. However, as somebody who lived in India for 8 years in total until December 2019, and as the fundraiser for a food bank in Bihar that has been alleviating the hunger caused by lockdowns [1], I have daily contact with people in India as well as some context for the figures being presented amidst the ongoing alarm.