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Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as
funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images)
The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader religious festivals and the political carnival of an eight-phase election campaign even as the second wave of a pandemic was breaking. The narcissism that enabled our leadership to ignore the warnings of expert groups. Their inability to form bipartisan alliances between the Centre and the states in the middle of a national calamity. Now that some of the loudest voices in the land have gone quiet, t
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Bodies of the Covid deceased at a crematorium in Jabalpur, MP (Anil Tiwari)
Giridhari Lal Thakrey, 50, a school teacher in village Katang Tola, 50-odd km from the district headquarters of Balaghat in eastern Madhya Pradesh, complained of fever, cough and cold on April 12. He was taken to the government health centre in Waraseoni, the block headquarters, where he died the following day. His wife Tomeshwari Thakrey complained of similar symptoms on April 14 and passed away the same evening. Soon, Giridhari’s elder brother, Kunwar Lal, developed symptoms, tested positive for Covid and was admitted to a hospital in Waraseoni. Katang Tola and adjoining Jhaliwada village have at least 300 people with influenza-like symptoms, but most of them are resisting Covid testing or treatment, believing it to be seasonal flu. Now, following the deaths, a degree of concern has set in.