Heartening to see the U.S. is stepping up and sending oxygen and aid to India.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/30/india-covid-coronavirus-crisis/
Also understandable and predicted that anger against their creepazoid prime minister is rising. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/29/india-coronavirus-modi/
Watching Modi's behavior, narcissism, and bombast reminds us that Trump is a type of person, and not at all unique.
I've read several of Arundhati Roy's books, both fiction and nonfiction, so the grimness of her Guardian piece was mitigated by my knowledge of her vision. Roy has definite psychic skills, and she would fit in well in our community. Whether those skills are latent or whether she consciously employs them, she knows that a kinder future is on its way, and she's invested in that future for India by not emigrating to a foreign country (she's India's bestselling non-expat writer). However, she knows that she has to make people aware of the cravenness in order to bring about that kinder future.
By the way, I highly suggest her latest novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, if you're searching for some vibration-raising literature.
My parents have always said that Modi was the DT of India.
@coyote. Thank you for telling us about the author of that story. I did not know her but it was clear from the story that the author was a special heartfelt and creative journalist. I pray for her India, for all of India.
I love India and I love her people. We are so blessed to have so many of them in our lives right here in America. Our dearest sweetest Deepti who comes occasionally to the Circle of Light but doesn't post in the forum was born in America but India lives in her DNA and in her upbringing.
It is hard to imagine the likes of Modi appealing to the people of India. But it is a huge and diverse country and he has a following. So did Trump, until he didn't.
@jeanne-mayell dad is better, cousins on my mom's side are sick but not too bad, strange that my aunt in Punjab is perfectly fine and there aren't many cases there compared to other places. So lots of watching, waiting and praying going on.
@jeanne-mayell. The Guardian article is a good one even though it’s hard to read. Here’s another tough one from the NYT today: Death is the only truth. If you think it’s too much, Jeanne, I won’t be offended if you take it down. Although these reports are hard to read, it’s much harder to be living in India during the pandemic right now. I think of India everyday.
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It is hard to imagine the likes of Modi appealing to the people of India. But it is a huge and diverse country and he has a following. So did Trump, until he didn't.
"The missing persons complaint was filed at Parliament Street police station in Delhi as a matter of some urgency: it concerned the “disappearance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi” and 10 of his cabinet ministers during the pandemic.
Nagesh Kariyappa, the general secretary of the Indian national students’ union who filed the report to police on Friday, said he wanted the absence of political leadership when India had been brought to its knees by Covid-19 to be a matter of official record..."