Just the decent thing to do

May 18, 2020 11:44

'Human decency made many people help migrant workers get home, or report on them, or speak for them in court; did this, in decency, seem anti-national? When that the poor have cried, human decency hath wept; perfidy should be made of sterner stuff. Yet, Modi's government doesn't much mention the humanitarian emergency his policy made, and is incredibly tight-fisted, except when it comes to spending Rs 20,000 crore digging up the centre of Delhi for a narcissistic remodel in the middle of the worst crisis in Independent India, and Modi is an honourable man.'

Mitali Saran, at her stinging best, in the Deccan Herald, here.

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