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Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People India's Covid Tragedy

Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People India's Covid Tragedy

          
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About the Book

The summer of 2021 saw a massive rise in the number of infections and deaths from

Covid-19 in India. Even by conservative estimates, at least 1.5 million people had

lost their lives by June; several times the official figure. As in the first wave of the

pandemic, this time, too, the chaos and suffering was in large measure, as Harsh

Mander shows, due to mismanagement by an uncaring and cynical state.

The first part of the book, 'Locking Down the Poor', describes the grave humanitarian

crisis of 2020, which pushed the urban poor to the brink of starvation. It shows how

this was a direct consequence of public policy choices that the central government

made, particularly of imposing the world's longest and most stringent lockdown,

with the smallest relief package. Mander brings us voices of out-of-work daily-wage

and informal workers, the homeless and the destitute, all overwhelmed by hunger,

humiliation and dread. From the highways and overcrowded quarantine centres, he

brings us stories of the estimated 3 crore migrant workers whose livelihoods were

destroyed, forcing them to walk hundreds of kilometres to their villages.

The second part of the book, 'Burning Pyres, Mass Graves', records the horrors

of the following year, when everything from hospital beds to oxygen and essential

medicines fell disastrously short. Mander traces the causes for these shortages to the

criminal neglect of public health in India, a situation made worse under the Narendra

Modi government, leading to the extortion of a beleaguered population by everyone

from suppliers of oxygen cylinders to pharma billionaires. He holds the state culpable

for indulging in pageantry-with the PM advertising himself as a messiah-when the

country needed to brace for the impact of the second wave.

Combining ground reports with hard data and first-hand knowledge, Mander chronicles

the greatest humanitarian catastrophe India has faced in a century, the effects of which

will be felt for decades. This powerful, even shattering, book is a necessary record of

a national tragedy that too many of us want to forget, when remembering is our only

defence against a similar disaster in the future.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789354475436
  • Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books LLP
  • Publisher Imprint: Speaking Tiger Books
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9354475434
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 584 gr


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