Took part in a panel discussion on DD
Gave my point of view as to about the current status of the war as it enters the second month.
This is a follow up of the first review @ https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-corona-combat-review-of-situation.html General We are now into Day 10 of our lockdown. Midway point of Phase 1 of the battle with the Chinese Virus. Approaching Phase 2 shortly. Critical times ahead. Time for a review of the situation. The PM has spoken to us today. He has just told all of something very important. India is with Indians and Indians are with India. Though we are isolated we remain collected in this fight. Have faith. Economic packages have been rolled out for the poor and for taking care of the common man as well as the industry. At this point of time, I guess that is what the government can do, and it has done that. If the need arises more will be done. I am confident of that. At least for the needy. Overall, we are winning it where superpowers, wannabe superpowers, have been superpowers are losing / lost it. The collective response of India has been simply fantas...
Gen Shankar & Amb.Malhotra are a whiff of fresh air against all the one-sided propaganda from the West & English media. The professor is an outright propagandist and the other ambassador seems to be straight from the weak-kneed mould of the vasudheva kuttam-bunkum moralist that our foreign service seems to have been infested with. Russia won't tolerate an existentialist threat and repression of russian speakers on its border, which is difficult for these types to understand as we are willing to even allow genocides of our own within our own borders.
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