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We aren't dying in droves as some predicted, but can you handle this truth?

India isn't going through a picnic. But our drains aren't filled with bodies, hospitals haven't run out of beds, crematoriums and graveyards not out of wood or space

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Shekhar Gupta
Why are we talking movies in the era of Covid? Especially when it is neither Outbreak, nor Contagion. It is the 1992 classic, A Few Good Men.

Among the most quoted exchanges from that film is Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee demanding the truth from Jack Nicholson’s Marine Col. Nathan R. Jessep, who famously throws a counter at the prosecutor: You can’t handle the truth.

That was about an ugly and inconvenient truth that Nicholson’s character was seeking to hide and justify. For this week’s argument, however, we are reversing that logic.

Can we confront you, therefore, with the
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