{"id":167148,"date":"2021-05-17T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202055"},"modified":"2021-05-17T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:50:00","slug":"how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/17\/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bill Gates Set the Stage for Modi\u2019s Disastrous Response to COVID-19 in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis, its performance has been far worse on the vaccine front. The BJP-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which seems to believe in the ideology of free-market capitalism, thinks that the market will magically  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/17\/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india-2\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/17\/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india-2\/\">How Bill Gates Set the Stage for Modi\u2019s Disastrous Response to COVID-19 in India<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/17\/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india-2\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Prabir Purkayastha.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/05\/17\/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis, its performance has been far worse on the vaccine front. The BJP-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which seems t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167179,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167148\/revisions\/167179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}