Bill Gates, the White Man’s Burden and Modi Government’s Vaccine Debacle

The Modi government's approach to vaccines is based on the central pillar of RSS ideology: the task of the state is only to help big capital. Anything else including planning is "socialism". In the case of vaccines, it means no attempt to get the companies—both public and private sector together—to plan what was required for a quick vaccination program; put in the money and the necessary supply chain. Instead, it believed that India's private pharmaceutical industry would do all of this on its own.