THE MAKING OF A CATAS TROPHE by JAYATI GHOSH

This book by Jayati Ghosh, a former professor at JNU, who is now with the University of Amherst, narrates how the pandemic played out in India against the world.

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Ghosh thinks the nationwide lockdown was stringent. She argues that cases of COVID infection went up, nevertheless, so a complete lockdown was needlessly brutal. There was a situation where even the medical fraternity and public health experts knew very little about the virus when it first erupted. Even a complete lockdown or no masking, a battle between medical science and vegetarian habits created enormous rupture among the people.