India's second wave
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
All across India there are scenes of devastation and desperation as the country grapples with a brutal second wave of Covid-19. What went wrong? And will this crisis have a lasting impact on the political future of Prime Minister Modi?
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-Amrit Dhillon, Freelance journalist for The Times.
-Hugh Tomlinson, South Asia correspondent for The Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Alice Thompson and I'm Rachel Solvester and this is what I wish I'd known, the podcast |
| 0:06.8 | in which we talked to extraordinary people who lived astonishing lives and not only survived |
| 0:12.0 | but thrived. |
| 0:13.5 | Lawson adversity a part of life but an imperfect past isn't always an indicator of what's |
| 0:18.6 | to come. |
| 0:19.7 | In this series we'll be speaking to inspiring individuals about how they achieve success |
| 0:24.6 | and the face of adversity. |
| 0:26.4 | Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | India is in crisis. |
| 0:38.7 | Death and devastation are sweeping across the country as India grapples with a brutal |
| 0:44.8 | second wave of COVID-19. |
| 0:47.4 | India's second wave is crippling the country fueled by that double variant. |
| 0:51.5 | People dying waiting for beds, people dying waiting for oxygen, people dying on mattresses |
| 0:58.3 | outside hospitals and people dying because they have not been vaccinated. |
| 1:03.6 | 400,000 cases a day and many are saying that there's worse to come. |
| 1:10.0 | How did one of the world's biggest economies, the country producing the bulk of our COVID |
| 1:16.2 | vaccines, end up in a state of such lethal chaos? |
| 1:21.5 | And will the crisis have a lasting impact on the political future of Prime Minister Modi? |
| 1:28.4 | Oh, the Modi! |
| 1:29.4 | Criticism and the condemnation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government's failed |
| 1:33.2 | response continues to grow louder. |
| 1:35.6 | There is so much anger from all sides to these points where if you get sick now you're |
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