FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Our nation is at war,” General V.P. Malik tweeted on April 18. As the last Indian army chief to have led troops in war, he should know. Each day, over 2,000 Indians are succumbing to Covid-19, nearly four times the number of soldiers killed in the 11-week Kargil War in 1999. But there’s an important difference—this pandemic is not a distant border conflict fought by generals and professional soldiers. The tsunami of the second wave has crashed into our towns and cities, affecting our friends, neighbours and relatives, overwhelming our health infrastructure, leaving people scrambling around for hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and even slots in crematoriums to dispose of the dead. Over 200,000
