In "Priya's Mask", India's first female superhero befriends a little girl, Meena, to show her the sacrifices made by health workers, like her mother, and to spread compassion and battle COVID-19 myths, such as young people not being at risk. "There was victim blaming, blaming poor people, blaming various nationalities for the virus ... Priya challenges that disinformation," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from New York via a video call. India has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections, behind only the United States, with about 9.5 million cases and more than 138,000 deaths, according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins University. She's female, she's brown. And brown to me is really important because I live in the United States and that representation is also what drew me to this because it's about time," she said.

Source: bd News24 December 02, 2020 13:30 UTC