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Dharavi, HCQ & some questions

Why was the trial of the drug on Dharavi residents put on hold? What prompted the authorities to restart? What connection does the coming US election have with all this?

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Nivedita Mookerji
For the past few weeks somebody, who sounds like a whistle blower, has been writing e-mails to some journalists around the world to draw attention to an unusual place — Dharavi. Mumbai’s best-known slum and setting for many Bollywood flicks and at least one Oscar-winning Hollywood hit has emerged as a hunting ground for top politicians to pharma giants, philanthropists to epidemiologists to the world media during the Covid crisis, if the whistle blower, who hasn’t revealed his identity, is taken seriously.

The e-mails, from a name that sounded unreal, went unnoticed in the crowded inbox for some days till one
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