Follow us on FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Atmanirbharta’s bitter pill: Second wave has shaken the carefully curated image of a country with decreasing reliance on the world May 28, 2021, 9:09 PM IST The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now The sight of asphyxiating patients thrashing about on the floors of barely-there hospitals brought the world to India’s door. Over the last few weeks, as India has struggled to cope with the second Covid wave, foreign friends have delivered much-needed lifelines. These oxygen cylinders and oxygenators are helping us tide over the greatest irony: They’re supplying the breath of life to suffering Indians living in a country that produces so much oxygen that it exports it.