: ‘Second wave of Covid was 26/11 of health system’: Barkha Dutt talks to Suketu Mehta about her book #IndiaNEWS Journalist Barkha Dutt spoke to author Suketu Mehta about her recently published book

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‘Second wave of Covid was 26/11 of health system’: Barkha Dutt talks to Suketu Mehta about her book #IndiaNEWS
Journalist Barkha Dutt spoke to author Suketu Mehta about her recently published book To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid. She recalled how the Covid-19 lockdowns affected migrant labourers and her decision to report from the ground. She said, “I had to be on the ground to tell their story and so began my tryst with the pandemic.�She talked about people from the lower-income class resorting to selling and pawning their belongings as a substitute to their source of income. She remembered how the poor had to take drastic steps in order to feed themselves, some of them even taking their lives so as to reduce the burden of feeding yet another mouth. “For a country as stratified as ours, the humanitarian crisis was going to be just as grave, or even graver, than the medical crisis�, said Dutt.“The shutting down of the public transport was a big mistake�, remarked Dutt. “The invisibilisation of the poorest of our people was terrible.� Dutt was also critical of the government ignoring the needs of the economically precarious Indians and botching up numbers related to Covid-19 deaths. She also pointed at the “delusion� of the government for it...Read more

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