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Big story: Hindsight
“India begins 2020 in turmoil.”
That’s how we started the first Political Fix of this year, offering forecasts from Scroll.in’s reporting team and one from me on what readers could expect in 2020 and, indeed, the forthcoming decade in India.
Spoiler alert: The words “global pandemic” do not turn up in those articles.
This week, as we pass the halfway mark of the year, the mostly unforeseen coronavirus crisis is all-encompassing, dominating every other development.
Five months after it was officially declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the Covid-19 pandemic and its fallout remain wildly unpredictable, with no clarity on how long it will disrupt what we considered normal life.
But even while the full impact of the Covid crisis – on politics, on policy, on the economy and on all of our lives – cannot yet be ascertained, we can still put down some notes on...
