The health crisis has temporarily unified otherwise bitter political rivals Chairing a meeting with the chief ministers of states on Saturday to review the 21-day lockdown which officially ends on 14 April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sported a mask—the first time since the covid-19 pandemic emerged as the biggest public health crisis for the world as well as India.
At that moment the PM proved the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. In short in his inimitable style, once again he was using optics to convey to the rest of India that defence (self-protection) is still the best offence.
While the optics signalled no dropping of the guard at a personal level, the PM gave enough indications that the initial strategy to contain the
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