But there is so much we need to know about the details, and to know about them authoritatively from official, government sources. If yes, does rural India know what is going to descend on it? Are India’s villages prepared, even remotely prepared, in terms of health centres, equipment to meet the challenge? World War I, we may remind ourselves, coincided with the 1918-1920 pandemic. With the Fourth Estate leading we, the people of India, need to become our freedom’s life-support.

Source: The Hindu September 14, 2020 18:22 UTC