Quotes

"US President Joe Biden has a meeting every evening (starting
his first day in office) when he
reviews how many vaccinations were done in the US that day.
He is very upset when the
daily target is not met. And his
picture is not even on the
vaccination certificates.”

Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of the Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic
Research and Ananta Aspen Centre,
Business Standard, May 20, 2021

"The rulers forgot to recognize
that it requires experts in
epidemiology and medicine
to plan and treat a billion-plus
population. Instead, a coterie posed as advisors and overlooked the virus lurking at the door.”

A. R. Vasavi, social anthropologist,
Punarchith Collective, The Indian
Express, May 22, 2021
"Taloja jail where (Stan) Swamy
is incarcerated, has three
ayurvedic doctors, none trained
in allopathy, and such a severe
shortage of escort guards that
they required seven days to
hospitalize Hany Babu, who was suffering from an eye infection
that almost blinded him.”

Payoshi Roy, lawyer, Bombay High
Court, represents three accused
in the Bhima Koregaon case; Stan
Swamy is an 84-year-old Jesuit priest
and human rights activist; Hany Babu,
is professor of language and linguistics,
Delhi University, The Indian Express,
May 27, 2021

"Will POTUS (President Of
The US) have to divide his
attention between sending
us oxygen and looking
into the charge of ‘free
speech’ gasping
for breath in India?”

Bachi Karkaria, columnist,
The Times of India, May 27, 2021

"There is no coordination.
People are made to wait at
the centers for several hours
and are later told there is no
vaccine. There are also
instances of citizens getting
slots and when they go there, either there is no vaccine stock
or the center is shut.”

Jamsheed Master, advocate,
addressing the Bombay High Court,
Free Press Journal, May 21, 2021

"I get requests every day
to be part of some fundraiser,
but I don’t know where
these funds are going. I want
to do something where I know
my output is reaching the
person directly.”

Farah Khan, film director, on doctors
attending Covid patients, mid-day,
May 15, 2021