Once this pandemic ends, hopefully sooner than later, India will need an honest, 9/11-type commission to establish how we got here, fix individual accountability and systemic gaps so we don’t let ourselves down again. We came up short with post-Partition India’s greatest internal challenge. We can’t fail like this twice.
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