The assembly elections are being held even as the long shadow of the Covid-19 is still looming large. The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is again spreading fast. The active Covid-19 cases in the country reached 472,169 with 141,986 new cases being detected in the last 24 hours. The five poll-bound states are also not being spared as the much-anticipated third wave of
The assembly elections are being held even as the long shadow of the Covid-19 is still looming large. The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is again spreading fast. The active Covid-19 cases in the country reached 472,169 with 141,986 new cases being detected in the last 24 hours. The five poll-bound states are also not being spared as the much-anticipated third wave of
‘All is well’ and the lethal price of populism
What led to the transformation of the largest democracy of the world into an ‘ideal’ kingdom?
The writer is a Harvard graduate and is in specialty practice of endodontics in US. He tweets @HarisIq35680061
“The corpses spoke in one voice: ‘All is well, sab kuch changa changa’
Lord, in your ideal kingdom, we see bodies flow in the Ganga
Lord, your smoke belching chimneys now seek relief
Lord, our bangles are shattered, and shattered are our hearts
Lord, your clothes are divine; your radiance is divine
Flames rise high and reaches the sky, the furious city rages;
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Keki Daruwalla
Author and Columnist
RECOVERING unsteadily from Covid-19, one had to choose between two titles, ‘Pinjra Tod’ and ‘Shav-vahini Ganga’, the poem by Gujarati poet Parul Khakkar, which caused ripples in the US and Gujarat these two months. Such was the fury of the right-wingers on reading the poem that about 28,000 misogynist and abusive epithets were hurled at the poor lady, who wrote down the sad narrative of corpses being carried by the Ganga.