Andhra’s vaccination record of 1.3 million shots a day is impressive and it is also just the healthy competition among states that we need. The drive, spread over 2,000 centres, expands the debate beyond vaccine availability. It’s also about state capacity and the ability to persuade people to get vaccinated.
Agree or not, Chimamanda Adichie’s essay has generated a crucial debate
Nigerian feminist and novelist Chimamanda Adichie’s blistering attack against social media-enabled wokeness ‘choking on sanctimony’ and terrifying others having the ‘wrong opinion’ has generated a sharp polarising debate around the world. Though she has since redacted her three-part essay from her website, everybody has joined in. Pity Enid Blyton can’t.
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