View: Vaccine challenge and opportunity for India Inc

The government would appear to be paralysed at the edge of the fiscal cliff, stricken by a fear of heights. Do not count on it to fund vaccine production.

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The government and the citizenry, medical professionals and the healthcare business, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies, scientists and their unsung assistants, universities and schools, teachers and students, religious leaders and celebrities. Entrepreneurs and industrialists have a special role to play.

There is a time for elegies, and a time for holding to account. There is a time for recrimination, for counting the errors of omission and commission that have spread panic and despair, and filled the air with the foul smell of fear and makeshift pyres outside cremation grounds already tirelessly aglow. This is not that time. This is the time to wage an all-of-society battle against the pandemic. The government and the citizenry, medical
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