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Book Review |Barkha Dutt’s ‘To Hell and Back’ exhumes the bodies of those whose stories were waiting to be told
FirstpostOn 21 April 2021, I received a WhatsApp message from one of my best friends. Every bureaucratic body was equally invested in hiding the ‘real cause’ of deaths of people dying at the hands of not only COVID-19 but also the state’s ignorance and mindlessness. This is what girls and their mothers have reported back to women’s groups across the country.” While some of these stories were coming out, the real struggles of the ‘COVID warriors’, the frontline workers – our doctors and medical practitioners, weren’t finding attention. Dutt writes, “At 0.55 beds for every 1,000 Indians and just 0.66 doctors for every 1,000 people, India should hardly have been surprised at what followed.” Her father S. P. Dutt died of COVID. There’s only one critique I have for the book and that is: where do queer people come in the ‘humans of COVID’ narrative?
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