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In the country, do we trust?!

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I understand that many in the ranks of the opposition in this country, and a whole lot of so called enthusiasts on social media, are baying for the Governments blood, asking why enough details of the adventure or otherwise at the   Chinese border is not being made public. There is also one leader of a principal opposition party who seems to have asked why the government hadn’t taken the opposition into confidence before making any move to keep our borders in tact. Add caption There is no doubt that the government of the day has not been good at communicating a whole lot of things with the people of the country, particularly, in things that have consequence to the lives and welfare of people all over. Take for example the issue of how the initial perception was done by the leadership and governments across, when Covid broke out initially in the country. We can surely say that wrong expectations were created in the minds of the people, and an impression given that we as a nation ...

Covid & Communication in India - Right expectations set??

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Our country is suffering a very tough time in the hands of the virus Covid 19, and the fact remains that it continues to spread havoc across the nation, almost in all the major cities and towns across. It's a matter of time before things ease out, and it now depends on fortitude and providence to see how much time and damage to the country's psyche before the deadly virus dies down - as they would now call it in technical parlance, the curve gets flattened, and they steeps downward, and dies. That would mean that we are at a point that there are no new covid cases reported in the country, and post that there remains a fairly long and quiet period in which no form of the said virus resurfaces to hit people's health and lives.  It's now common knowledge that when the pandemic first surfaced in the country sometime in late february this year (or early March), there was a fair sense of confidence in the nation's leadership and its people, that thanks to our common...