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Of lockdown laziness and change agents

Negligent at the best of times, our public sector undertakings have become even more lazy during these months of lockouts

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Sunanda K Datta-Ray
Britain’s alcohol consumption has gone up 48 per cent since lockdowns began. A survey in India would probably reveal that sleeping has risen by 148 per cent. I am writing this at the start of yet another weekend when my bankers will take no calls on the eve of the three-day closure so considerately arranged by the West Bengal authorities.

Such laziness is all the more reason for saluting the courage and enterprise shown by a 25-year-old Banaras Hindu University law student. Ananya Choudhary compelled the Rajdhani Express from Delhi to take her to the contractual destination of Ranchi instead of
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