There is no getting around the fact that India is presumably at its worst in the fight against the China-made coronavirus pandemic. The second wave of the pandemic has been far more severe, infectious and deadly than the first wave which India had managed to flatten out somehow. However, as the cases continue to rise, it is the few usual suspects that have come out of their burrow holes and started kicking India down, when it certainly is not in a position of strength.
Leading the charge has been the heartthrob of Indian liberals — the newly elected President of the USA, Joe Biden who is making sure that India remains on the backfoot in its fight against the virus. The US has closed down the supply of the raw materials required to churn out the vaccines and despite Adar Poonawalla (CEO, Serum Institute of India) and the government lobbying to reinstate the supply, Biden like his former self when he didn’t allow India access to the cryogenic technology in 1992, is keeping the supply closed.
Asked at his briefing on Thursday if President Joe Biden’s administration had decided on the requests made from India to lift the ban on the export of vaccine raw materials to India, State Department spokesperson Ned Price with a deadpan face said, “We have a special responsibility to the American people.”
“It’s, of course, not only in our interest to see Americans vaccinated, it’s in the interests of the rest of the world to see Americans vaccinated,” he added.
Which ‘rest of the world’ wants to see only Americans vaccinated is a mystery that even Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes would have a hard time cracking. Perhaps, it is the superiority complex of the Americans under the Democrat rule of ‘India-loving’ Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that is coming out in its full glory.
Surprisingly, there has been no furore by the Lutyen’s media of the country on Biden’s unilateral decision. Imagine, if the tables were turned and it was Donald Trump who took the decision — the cancel brigade would have slaughtered the Republican leader. And just to jog the reader’s memory a bit, last year, New Delhi had rushed to provide the Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets to Washington, without a moment of hesitancy, when the latter was pleading across the planet.
While Washington is playing its part in keeping India down, a vile Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany is eyeing and cursing the booming pharmaceutical industry of India. Lacking acute self-awareness, Merkel lamented that ‘they (Germans) allowed India to become the pharmacy of the world’.
“The truth is, we haven’t treated our pharmaceutical industry so well for many years…I am glad that we still have pharmaceutical production in Belgium, Holland, Germany,” highlighting the issue of vaccine shortage, she said, “We now have a situation with India where, in connection with the emergency situation of the pandemic, we are worried whether the pharmaceutical products will still come to us.”
Furthermore, Merkel cautioned, “Of course, we have only allowed India to become such a large pharmaceutical producer in the first place, also from the European side, in the expectation that this should then also be complied with. If that is not the case now, we will have to rethink.”
At a time when Washington and Berlin were obtaining sadistic pleasure at the harrowing sight of the country, some self-loathing Indians who are enrolled on the payrolls of ‘vested interests’ foreign publications, resorted to their usual style of reporting by painting a dystopian picture using aesthetic drone photos of crematoriums to drive their agenda.
“Three health officials who asked to remain anonymous told me they believe that the daily number of COVID-19 deaths in India has already crossed the 10,000 figure.” wrote intern Rana Ayub in her Times article.
Devastating images of patients dying for lack of oxygen. India has failed its people like never before. My latest report for Time magazine on Narendra Modi's criminal abdication of responsibility in dealing with the second deadly Covid wave in India. https://t.co/gmZ49s9iSz
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) April 23, 2021
Surely the positive case count numbers can be fudged by the states but no one can hide when 10,000 people die of the pandemic. There won’t be a need for anonymous tips or sources when such reality unfolds. Just because her piece has been published in Times which has lost its credibility in the years gone by, doesn’t mean it is the cardinal truth.
Another journalist-turned- nomad Barkha Dutt who has the uncanny penchant for making any tragedy about herself, giving no room for the original story to breathe regurgitated a feature-length article in Washington Post to bemoan the current condition.
https://twitter.com/imdpkmehra/status/1384891899400622081
Is your article part of some new toolkit as the article photo with cremations looks similar to other foreign media negative coverage! And then you've this toolkit Twitter message shared by few influencers! Put out statistics for states that actually mismanaged the crisis!! pic.twitter.com/dmzq4sVG1f
— Mahadevan (@maddies70) April 23, 2021
It is the duty of a journalist to point out the fallacies of the government but when the entire agenda metamorphoses into belittling, ‘India – the country’ then this is where the line needs to be drawn. In the case of the two aforementioned ‘journalists’, the line between speaking ‘truth to the power’ and ‘peddling agenda’ was blurred some aeons ago.
While in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a dearth of oxygen supply in the country, it is not the centre that can solely be blamed for the current travesty. ‘Health’ is a state subject in the country, according to the constitution. Enough time was there for the states to prepare their roadmap to counter any future mishaps. But states like Maharashtra and Delhi continued to engage in petty politics and the result is being realised by the public, which is paying for their respective government’s abject lack of foresight.
As the states across the country fight for Oxygen cylinders, two states where the caseload is low and have good production capacity – Tamil Nadu and Odisha, have come forward to help others in these testing times. Uddhav Thackeray and Arvind Kejriwal can surely take a cue out of such states and introspect that instead of engaging in rampant politics, they could have saved the lives of thousands of patients.
Read more: Amid Oxygen crisis, Tamil Nadu and Odisha step up as the saviours of India
The truth of the matter is foreign powers and short-sighted selfish journalists are using the current second wave as an opportunity to pin down India and knock it unconscious.
As sad as the realisation is, it will be in the country’s best interest if the central administration keeps its head down and works toward normalcy. In the last seven years, the Modi regime did not give many opportunities to the liberals to thrash him but now they are milking the pandemic to full effect.
Does India use the same raw material to produce vaccines as American vaccine producers are using? How sending raw materials to India will compromise the American public? Is Germany sending any raw materials?
The raw materials are different, in fact US has been importing raw materials for its vaccines from India. This is one of the reasons that Biden administration has done a U-turn.
US ban on raw material export was probably due to big Pharma pressure who would rather that India buys Pfizer Vaccine than make its own.
We haven’t learnt anything from the past. Had there been no help from our own people neither the Mogals could have conquered us nor the British could have enslaved us for years. There have been always some people whose personal agenda comes before everything, be it at the cost of the nation, shame on them. Our duty is to ignore and boycott these shameless creatures , and stand as a nation at this our of crisis.
I totally agree and people have very short memory and they have forgotten all the struggles our ancestors had with outsiders but yet haven’t learned single lesson. The pathetic state of Indian public.
The world is full of opportunists and US seems to soften their stand on china and playing the game.
I largely agree with the opinion expressed in the article. The government should go ahead full steam to retrieve the situation. Later plan to take stock and review relations with countries.
True colours of western countries come out only in moments of crises. We have to guard against journalists who back stab for money. I hope the country proves thrm all wrong by fighting unitedly against the deadly virus
Unfortunately Modi is acting extremely soft against vulture journalists and knowing this vultures are going on a rampage spree and ultimately the general public are the one suffering . India needs an iron leader at this moment.
Crisis is a beautiful opportunity for people to get together and help each other,death is inevitable and people dying without proper treatment is crime,time for people with big heart to donate whatever is possible and help the nation,Forget about people crying hard to defame the nation and leadership.God or nature will take care.Indiawill rise above all countries,wait and watch
The govt has been too soft on rats both at home and abroad. Once this situation is controlled tackle everyone who has exploited this situation to endanger the country and go after them in different courts 24/7 till every other rat gives up this ratty behavior. No matter who the rat is or where it resides
Fully agree.
The real truth is that even after 7 decades of independence the people of India keep suffering under politicians who are in general absolutely incapable of planning and carrying out basic tasks that ensure the well being of the long suffering population. The people of India deserve better and for a start they should refuse to accept incompetence and at best mediocrity. Time for real change and expectation of excellence from politicians and civil servants, federal and State
This too shall come to pass .. hold the line and defend the nation .. the enemy is and has always been within. It’s high time India came up with a gene therapy of its own to deal with the f_ucking Chinese problem once and for all .. Biden camel toe Harris .. Hitler bitch Merkel and all the treacherous cock_suckers can go f_uck themselves …
I fully agree with the views expressed.
Well organised and balanced article , Govt right now should concentrate on resolving the second wave of Covid-19, selfish people have their own negative agenda they are neither Indian nor humen been. They are paid for this by Western countries and these countries don’t wish a strong India.
There is nothing unexpected about the rankings of this sickular-left combination. They have done this all their lives just for a few bucks. It is like their mothers. However inspire of all negative propaganda Modi is doing great. He took over the situation under control and doing wonderfully. It is the states with their corrup minds who wanted the control over management of the pandemic to milk the situation to fill their coffers and the centre obliged to hand handover the managing powers with total support to them. But the states failed him by not taking proper preventive measures leading to the chaotic situation. One glaring example is Delhi. In Dec2020, Centre had allocated 201 cr. For establishing oxygen plants and other facilities but this joker Kujriwal didn’t care to do anything about it and only one plant was commissioned till date but started to blame the Centre. Hope after the present crisis is brought under control these criminals are put behind bars.
The left establishment with Soros money is on a non-stop mission to topple nationalist right wing governments all over the world and to some extent they have succeeded in recent US elections and are now concentrating on India and are preparing the ground for 2024 elections to bring the in the left establishment and very unfortunate thing is innocent public is not thinking in big picture and unable to understand left’s grand plans.
This corona virus pandemic is the perfect opportunity for the global left cabal to target India and hope Indian public wakes up to the reality.
Prayers for India
You can get through this
American indian voted Biden now this guy stop supplying raw material now their father & mother staying in India suffering to get doses the most selfish bunch of people. These bustards now pointing indian govt shame on them.