A solitary mourner with his loved one in a makeshift cremation ground in New Delhi Ajay Sukumaran, Preetha Nair, Jyotika Sood April 29, 2021 00:00 IST We, The Makers Of This Calvary outlookindia.com 2021-04-30T17:51:03+05:30 It was last October that Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz described India as the “poster child of what not to do” in handling the Covid-induced crisis, slotting the country with the US and Brazil. Six months ago, the economist’s sharp tone could perhaps have been brushed aside, given that things were actually looking up. The epidemic, at least, was heading the other way—down. But now, it would seem prophetic—a textbook case of how things can go horribly wrong just when they were going swimmingly well.