Sub-African India

Much of Africa is doing better than India while our mis-governance, lousy identity politics, corruption, self-congratulation, empty triumphalism, are threatening to catch up and ruin our self-image

What's in a name? That which we call Covid-19 by any other name would cause sickness, hospitalise or kill us. Why are we then getting our knickers in a twist if some across the world are describing the latest and the most notorious variant B.1.617 as ‘Indian’? And by the way, that ‘knickers’ idiom is fully printable, neither obscene, nor politically loaded any which way.

These are those kinds of times, though. The Chinese set the new norm by attacking anybody who dared to name the virus after China or Wuhan.

The world, by and large, especially the WHO, did as the