Stories Worth Reading on the Covid Crisis in India

Writers on Medium address the country’s disaster

Chandy Bee writes with a plea to acknowledge the pain that the country is experiencing:

Covid Is Ravaging My Country

From a few weeks before the surge became a full-blown crisis, filmmaker Anand Kamalakar wrote about the challenge of traveling back to the U.S. from India, a situation that is almost certainly harder now than when he wrote this:

Traveling in a Pandemic

Immunologist Rajyalakshmi balaji writes about the Covid-19 variants in India that are likely driving the surge:

What is India going through?

Writer and filmmaker Raj Ajay Pandya writes about the callous approach of the Modi government in dealing with the crisis and where its priorities appear to lie:

Deaths Are Becoming Data While Narendra Modi Continues To Dismantle India

I can relate to the anguish Ruby Verma feels at watching the disaster unfold from afar:

The helplessness of this moment

Finally, a fascinating analysis by @DFRLab, The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, on how Indians have been using Twitter to coordinate resources for one another in the absence of a more robust state response:

Analysis of SOS tweets during India’s COVID crisis shows how ordinary Indians helped each other

If you’d like to help the situation in India with your dollars, consider donating to AID India: