A very sobering article.  Coronavirus basically exposed all the BS India has been putting out.  Supapowa my azz.  A sub-Saharan level economy pretending to be on equal footing with the West and East Asia.  It is one thing to be a spectator and another to actually play like the big boys.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/10/modis-india-isnt-prepared-for-the-coronavirus/

It was only after Modi announced a nationwide lockdown on the evening of March 24 that it began to dawn upon Indians that there was no plan. Modi was repeating what he had done in 2016. He was improvising, gambling, performing the French art of on s’engage, et puis on voit: first engage, then figure things out.