Our multi-pronged war against an invisible adversary Premium G. Kishan Reddy The Centre has leveraged vast resources to tame covid and enable India’s return to its path of prosperity Read Full Story India’s multi-pronged war against the covid pandemic is best embodied by Mahatma Gandhi’s adage that “action expresses priorities". This war needed to be fought proactively on multiple fronts that included securing medical infrastructure, increasing covid testing capacities, ramping up production of medical essentials such as oxygen and life-saving drugs, and evolving a roadmap to vaccinate every willing citizen in India. In each of these areas, the ground we needed to cover was enormous—either because information on the virus was continuously evolving or because of legacy issues around medical-infrastructure readiness.