"Kumbh devotees have the blessings of Maa Ganga to save them from the virus grip.”
Tirath Singh Rawat, Uttarakhand chief
minister justifying holding the festival in his state during the pandemic,
The Times of India, April 15, 2021
"It is an absurdly dangerous act of irresponsibility to allow hundreds of thousands of mask-less people to gather in one place. The fact that this folly is bipartisan only makes it doubly irresponsible.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman of Forbes Marshall, past president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Business Standard,
April 15, 2021
"Last year was the eighth year
of the down cycle and affordability of real......