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The recovery of 105-year-old Dhenu Chavan and his 95-year-old wife Motabai has become a ray of hope in ravaged Marathwada.
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The recovery of 105-year-old Dhenu Chavan and his 95-year-old wife Motabai has become a ray of hope in ravaged Marathwada.
The third week of March proved to be Suresh Chavan’s summer of disquiet: five members of his family including his wife and two children had tested positive for COVID-19. But he was especially disconcerted when his centenarian father Dhenu Chavan and his nonagenarian mother, Motabai contracted the virus and were suffering from high fever.
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Among the many stories that my husband’s nonagenarian aunt tells so rivetingly is an eyewitness account of the terrible Bengal Famine of 1943. It was not all that long ago, but what she tells of those times sounds surreal. Of skeletal people arriving from the hinterland, begging for food from house to house. And what food did they beg for? Not even rice, but just the starchy water thrown away after the grains are boiled would do, they said. Such was their desperation.
India is headed towards the fourth wave of the coronavirus, which could cause irreparable damage to its
population and economy. It can only be stopped by public awareness, sacrifice and cooperation.
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India and the world are facing a vaccine crunch since the second and third waves are rising faster than the inoculation rate.
The frightening truth is that we do not know.
We do not know why after over 13 crore recorded Covid-19 infections, 30 lakh deaths, nearly 700 million vaccine doses given worldwide, including in India, the waves of death and destruction keep coming, crashing on the rocks of fear and speculation, threatening to drown humanity in its worst nightmare.