
Barkha Dutt on the Humans of COVID
Ideas of India
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The Numbers Don't Capture, the Stories Capture
The book is called humans of covet to helen back. It's not about the numbers, it's about as many people whom i could give a face and name and a story to. The state was either too present or too little present, and that was the paradox of its handling. I think what happened here was this kind of trollish judgment of those who were to examine and ask the whis and the howse and the whats. But when i say it doesn't matter, i mean it in framework of emotional numbness that it induces. So you can keep dagging on the millions, and because we are unable to cope right now with what it makes us feel,. And therefore
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