Excerpts, aspects and perspectives from different news agencies discussing how the Indian lockdown worked out to be a total disaster. India's Hurried Decision to Impose Nationwide lockdown was ill-planned & worst conceived! Alluding to the Hindu epic, Ramayana, the Prime Minister said, “For 21 days, forget what is stepping outside. (Imagine) there is a Lakshman Rekha on your doorstep.” Modi would later allude to another Hindu epic, Mahabharata, in equating the challenge of the 21-day initial lockdown to the 18-day battle. Barely four hours after his announcement on March 24, at the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world slept, India went into its first coronavirus-induced lockdown. And 68 days, 1,73,763 positive cases and 4,971 deaths later, on May 31, the ministry of home affairs issued an order announcing a phased reopening or ‘Unlock 1’ by dint of which almost all prohibitory orders were lifted, except in containment zones. In the preceding 24 hours, there have b...
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