It is genocide. Who is responsible?

"When political powers fail so drastically, society starts fighting hard for its survival. And faced with this disaster, many people have decided confront the situation head-on," wrote Shashi Shekhar. "These are people whose names may not be recorded by history but future generations will owe them a huge debt of gratitude," Hindustan Times (HT). "United States' top infection expert Anthony Fauci said that India should impose an immediate shutdown for a few weeks to control the spiralling coronavirus situation that has left its healthcare system in shambles and sparked a humanitarian crisis in the country," Scroll.in. "Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on states to consider lockdowns 'as the last option'," Economic Times (ET). Last year Modi imposed a stringent lockdown with just 4 hours notice when there were only around 550 cases. That resulted in a humanitarian disaster as millions of migrant labor walked hundreds of miles back to their villages to avoid starvation in cities, Times of India (TOI). This time they are not waiting. "In scenes reminiscent of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, thousands of workers are leaving for their hometowns and villages, fearing that they will lose their housing and livelihood if they remain in big cities," The Indian Express (TIE). Last time "they were treated with cruelty in their own villages." This time some villages have "set up a quarantine centre on their own. People who come from outside first spend 14 days in this centre before going home. All expenses are shared among the villagers." "As of June 2020, India had just over 1.25 million allopathic doctors. The number of nurses stood at about 3.26 million, as of December 2019," wrote Vivek Kaul. But they are not evenly distributed. "Kerala has 65,685 doctors for a population of 35.6 million. Jharkhand's population is 38.6 million, but the state has only 6,387 doctors." "This leads to what economist Albert Hirschman calls the exit from the state, those who can, opt out." In 2019, 7,000 wealthy Indians left the country. "In the long-term, one can foresee gated communities with their own hospitals coming up." There is a vast section of the population which believes whatever Modi says, regardless of how false it may be. Naturally, his ministers follow their master. "Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan Thursday claimed that India's COVID fatality rate is the "lowest in the world"at 1.11 percent," TIE. "COVID-19 deaths are being underreported across India, an investigation by Wire Science has found. Such non-reporting falls broadly into two categories." "When patients who have symptoms of COVID-19 but aren't tested, test negative or have an inconclusive result die, their deaths aren't included." "Some Indian cities and states are going a step ahead and not reporting all confirmed deaths either. These include Gujarat's Vadodara and Surat, and all of Telangana." Crematoriums are running out of space to burn bodies, CNN. If the whole world knows, surely our Health Minister should be aware? "A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold across the country, five scientists who are part of the forum told Reuters. Despite the warning, four of the scientists said the federal government did not seek to impose major restrictions to stop the spread of the virus." The government will not even allow scientists to find solutions to the catastrophe by hiding data, ET. "Anger is completely beside the point when, when you have an imperious leader, who has come to mistake the hologram of his own mendacity for reality," wrote PB Mehta. The Allahabad High Court called it "a genocide". We agree.