NEW DELHI : Diplomats around the world remain in place, far from family and friends. There to help their nationals in trouble.
There to ensure supply lines, connect countries. They are in dangerous places. If they get sick, they will not be home. They remain for their country." This Twitter post last week by former Canadian ambassador Barbara Richardson could sum up the life and work of Indian diplomats in the past few months, since the coronavirus outbreak.
Come next week, it will be two months since India started evacuating people from coronavirus hotspots across the world. Till date, India has brought back more than 2,000 people from China, the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic, besides Iran and Italy, on flights operated by Air India