A country of 1.3 billion; growing numbers of infected, economy contracting, businesses facing precarious future and a Government who seems ineffective.

Before any data, this is what NY Times has to say - “Now they think it is better to get the virus than to stay hungry inside,”

The testing numbers are less than a third from the ones in Brazil and a fraction of the ones in Developed countries.

India has a bad record in reporting, problems of distance and population have plagued census mechanisms.