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India’s plight has worldwide implications

The lesson of India is to guard against premature celebration or hubris. The pandemic is not a series of national crises in which countries compete to see who can deal with the virus better. This is an interconnected global crisis.

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“It can be said with pride, India ... defeated COVID-19 under the able, sensible, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Modi  ... The party unequivocally hails its leadership for introducing India to the world as a proud and victorious nation in the fight against COVID.”

Those were the words of a resolution passed by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, just a few weeks ago in February.

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Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.

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