deliberately around christmas - | in order to make christians feel| insecure and they have certainly achieved their objective. there is one other thing that - i should mention, which is this that the nobel prize winner, i mother teresa s missionaries of charity, they used to receive | funding from all over the world because it s been doing - extraordinary work with the poor, needy and destitute in india. but that funding has been stopped by the modi government, - so that gives you a picture of what is really going - on in india at the moment. jef, that might be one of the reasons why the us commission on international religious freedom recommended putting india on a list of some countries that commit serious
violations of religious freedom. it is not least because there is a big indian diaspora in the us. is this becoming a political issue there? i don t think it s become a central issue, and the state department has not taken this advice from this non official but officially constituted body to put india on the red list, because, of course, india has a lot of important other issues with the us geopolitical, economic and the biden administration has, understandably, been skittish about taking them on in this way. but there really isn t any doubt that these are extremely serious issues for india, and for a country like the us, which believes in religious freedom and is supposed to be founded on it, there is going to be a point where it becomes a public issue for the biden administration, too. we may not of gotten it yet, but i think we are heading in that direction.
let s pick up what damian was saying about the problem being, it s all very well for us in north america, in parts of europe and some of the wealthy parts of the middle east and so on to say, i m all right, jack, but the reality is, everybody has told us from the beginning of this that if you don t vaccinate everyone, then no one is really truthfully protected. the serum institute in india was one of those places where vaccine production took off and vaccine numbers have been good in india, notwithstanding its enormous population. do you see any hope of that for the developing world? i think the situation is really desperate in africa. - in india, given its vast population, i think it s a major challenge. - so, india is still in the process of completing its second - dose of the vaccine. it still has, ithink,
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