View: What did India's scientists advise our political establishment about fighting COVID-19?

When a dreadful crisis hits a democracy, the natural and correct instinct is to see whether those who govern us have failed. That means politicians. And, naturally and correctly, politicians, both at the Centre and in states, are catching a lot of flak. And as the second Covid wave swells, politicians will catch more of the blame —and they will blame each other more. All that’s perfectly justified. After all, it was politicians who failed to