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Amid the pandemic, the country experienced cruel extortion from corporate leaders to the smallest providers of medical and funeral essentials.

UPDATED: May 12, 2021 09:24 IST LIFELINE: A Chennai resident with Remdesivir purchased from a government facility (Arun Sankar/Getty Images) When a harried Naresh Indulkar, a resident of Mumbai’s Thane, went searching for three vials of Remdesivir for a relative in critical condition in hospital, it took nearly six hours to find a pharmacy with stock. “Rs 22,000 a vial,” whispered the man behind the counter, though the marked retail price was only Rs 1,800. Distraught, Indulkar returned to his apartment. A glimmer of hope appeared in the form of a reply from his neighbour to an appeal h...

ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021 UPDATED: May 7, 2021 23:36 IST 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 relig...