This is how it ends when you vote for hate: Author Sonia Faleiro on India's COVID situation
New Delhi: Critically acclaimed Indian writer and Journalist Sonia Faleiro on Sunday took to her official Twitter account to express anguish over the situation of COVID-19 in India as the country is facing a major second wave outbreak of the deadly virus.
Sonia, whose critically acclaimed first novel The Girl was published by Viking in 2006, said she was gutted to see the situation of the virus in India and that it need not be this way in the first place. “The country literally produces vaccines!” she wrote in the tweet adding “This is how it ends when you vote for hate”.
Absolutely gutted to see the situation in India. It didn’t have to be this way at all. The country literally produces vaccines! This is how it ends when you vote for hate” her tweet read.
In another tweet, Sonia added, “Almost every day I find myself sending someone in India a condolence message. So sad, sorry and frankly heartbroken by the situation”.
Sonia’s writing and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Granta, The California Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, and Smithsonian. She is a co-founder of Deca, a global journalism cooperative that creates long-form stories to read on mobile devices.
She was awarded the 2011 Karmaveer Puraskaar for Social Justice for "drawing attention to India's most vulnerable and writing about them with sensitivity, humanity, and integrity". She is the recipient of a runners-up award in the CNN Young Journalist Award of 2006[4] as well as of awards from the Ratan Tata Trust, the Oxford Cambridge Society of India, and the British Council's de Souza Trust.
Absolutely gutted to see the situation in India. It didn’t have to be this way at all. The country literally produces vaccines! This is how it ends when you vote for hate.
— Sonia Faleiro (@soniafaleiro) April 18, 2021
Almost every day I find myself sending someone in India a condolence message. So sad, sorry and frankly heartbroken by the situation.
— Sonia Faleiro (@soniafaleiro) April 18, 2021
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3.7 magnitude tremor hits Kutch in Gujarat; no casualty
Ahmedabad (PTI): A tremor of 3.7 magnitude jolted Gujarat's Kutch district on Monday morning, the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said.
There was no report of any casualty or damage to property, the district administration said.
The tremor was recorded at 10.44 am with its epicentre 76 kilometres north-north east of Lakhpat, the Gandhinagar-based ISR said.
This is the second seismic activity of more than 3 magnitude this month in the district.
On December 7, a tremor of 3.2 magnitude was recorded in the district, according to the ISR.
Last month, Kutch recorded an earthquake of 4 magnitude on November 18.
Earlier, on November 15, Patan in north Gujarat was jolted by an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude, as per the ISR data.
Gujarat is a high earthquake-risk area.
It suffered nine major earthquakes in the past 200 years, according to data of the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA).
The earthquake in Kutch on January 26, 2001 was the third largest and second most destructive in India over the last two centuries, according to the GSDMA.
A large number of towns and villages in the district had suffered almost complete destruction in the earthquake, which killed nearly 13,800 persons and left 1.67 lakh others injured.
