Dipsita Dhar is All-India Joint Secretary of the Student Federation of India and a PhD student at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Center for the Study of Regional Development.
India’s right-wing government has been criminally negligent in its management of the pandemic, with deadly results. But communists and their allies have stepped in to provide relief to tens of thousands of suffering people.
Solidarity from India with anti-racist protesters in the United States is hollow if the same critical scrutiny isn’t applied to oppression and police brutality in India itself.