Rural India Is Starting to Turn On Modi
Covid-19 patients receive free oxygen, supplied by Khalsa Help International, in the Indirapurma township of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on May 11.
Photographer: Sumit Dayal/BloombergIn India’s thousands of villages, citizens have been left to fight the pandemic’s deadly second wave alone.
After crippling New Delhi and Mumbai, the Covid-19 surge has hit the vast hinterland that’s home to about 70% of the country’s 1.4 billion people, where there’s mostly no health-care facilities, no doctors and no supply of oxygen. And unlike India’s social-media literate urban population, residents can’t appeal on Twitter to an army of strangers to help.