Udaipur

2000

June 2, 2023

2000 की तेरहवीं

जैसा की आप सभी को ज्ञात हैं हमारे प्रिय और कुछ लोगों के अत्यंत प्रिय आदरणीय 2000 को मात्र 6 साल और 6 महीने की अल्पायु में प्रकृति के क्रूर हाथों (u know whose hands I am talking about) ने हमसे छीन लिया. आज हम सब उनकी तेरहवीं मना रहे हैं.

एक अबोध बालक जिनका जन्म कठिन परिस्तिथियों में 8 नवम्बर 2016 को हुआ. प्रसव में जच्चा / माँ (अर्थव्यवस्था) को बहुत दुःख झेलने पड़े. इनके जन्म लेते ही इनके बड़े भाई 1000 का आकस्मिक निधन हो गया. जिसकी पीड़ा उनकी माँ आज तक सहन कर रही है और यही कारण वह अपने माँ और बाप (u know who the big daddy is) के प्यार से वंचित ही रहे और अपने दुसरे छोटे भाइयों – 500, 200, 100, 50 व् 20 के जितना प्यार कभी न पा पाए.

जन्म पर अड़ोसी-पडोसिओं ने परिवार का मान और मन रखने के लिए इनकी बहुत तारीफ़ की. किसी न इन के अन्दर एक नए अंग होने की बात की कपोल कल्पना की तो किसी ने इनके गोरे रंग की तारीफ़ की और कहा की इनके जन्म से कुल में अब गोरे बच्चे ही जन्मेंगे.

लेकिन नियति को कुछ और ही मंज़ूर था. एक बच्चे को माता-पिता पहले ही खू चुके थे और इसी कारण से दूसरों की काली नज़र से बचाने के लिए तीन साल की आयु तक आते -आते इनका घर से निकलना बंद ही हो गया था.

फिर भी छुपते-छुपाते गाहे-बगाहे वह घर से निकल ही जाया करते थे. ज्यादा बड़े दिखने के कारण इनका बड़े कोठी – बंगलों वालों के साथ उठाना बैठना था. जिनके घर जाते सब उनको संजोये ही रखना चाहते थे. ज्यादा धार्मिक प्रवर्ती के ना होने के कारण पूजा घरों में बहुत कम ही देखे गए. शुरू से ही इन्होनें red flags ignore कर असामाजिक तत्वों के साथ मेल-जोल बड़ा लिया. इनके गोरे होने का गुमान भी धीरे-धीरे उतरता गया और काले सायों से घिर गया.

20 मई 2023 को जेठ महीने की तपती अमावस्या को प्रिय 2000 हमेशा काले अंधियारे में चले गए. सब कुछ इतना जल्दी हुआ की परिवार को संभलने का मौका ही नहीं मिला.

आज इनकी कमी पूरी करने की नाकाम कोशिश इनके अनुज 500 कर रहे हैं बाकी 4 भाई तो बहुत ही छोटे हैं कुछ भी करने के लिए. माँ भी अपना गुज़ारा और दुलार बाकी शेष बचे अपने लाडलों पर लुटा रही हैं और बाप का क्या है वह जानता है गलत हुआ है लेकिन फिर भी कैसे सब के सामने बोले. अकेले कमरे में आँखों में उठते तल्लियों को सख्त मन से बाँधने की कोशिश करते रहते हैं.

आप सभी महानुभावों से गुजारिश है की अपनी दुआओं में इनकी माँ को शक्ति और संबल प्रदान करने की कामना करें और साथ ही यह भी आगाह करना चाहता हूँ की इनकी कोई भी निशानी अपने पास ज्यादा पास न रखें और समय रहते दूर कर दें. क्योंकि इन के मोक्ष प्राप्ति के लिए बाधा रहेगी और आपके भी जीवन में रुकावट लाती रहेगी.

शोकाकुल,

10 का सिक्का

चचेरा भाई

Udaipur MLA 2023

May 6, 2023

उदयपुर शहर तैयार है अपना नया विधायक चुनने को !!

उदयपुर विधानसभा का एक अपना अलग गौरव है . यहाँ के मतदाताओं ने समय-समय पर ऐसी महान विभूतियों को चुना, जिन्होनें न केवल अपने क्षेत्र व प्रदेश बल्कि पुरे देश के पटल पर अपनी पहचान छोड़ी. चाहे वो 17 साल तक निरंतर मुख्यमंत्री रहने वाले स्व. श्री मोहनलाल जी सुखाड़िया हों या फिर उन के सामने जन संघ के उम्मीदवार रहे और बाद में उदयपुर विधायक चुने जाने वाले पार्टी संस्थापक कद्दावर नेता स्व. श्री भानु कुमार जी शास्त्री.

इन के बाद की पीढ़ी में देखें तो सुश्री गिरिजा जी व्यास केंद्रीय मंत्री एवम राष्ट्रिय महिला आयोग अध्यक्षा रहीं और वहीँ भाजपा से रहे श्री गुलाब चाँद जी कटारिया- जो अब असम प्रदेश के राज्यपाल नियुक्त होने के बाद वहां प्रदेश का गौरव बड़ा रहे हैं.

1952 से अब तक हुए 15 विधान सभा में समय समय पर अपनी सूझ बूझ से विधायक का चुनाव करा है . पहले चुनाव में जहाँ स्व. श्री मोहनलाल जी सुखाडिया 8179 मत पा कर अपने निकटतम प्रतिद्वंदी स्व. श्री मनोहर सिंह जी बेदला से 5453 मतों से जीते थे और अभी आखरी चुनाव में श्री गुलाब चंद जी कटारिया ने 74808 मत पा कर सुश्री गिरिजा जी व्यास से 9324 मतों से जीते हैं.

अगर अब तक के चुनाव देखे जाएँ तो 1957 के चुनावों में 82% मत पा कर श्री मोहनलाल जी सुखाडिया ने आज तक की सर्वाधिक जीत दर्ज करी है और वहीँ 1972 के चुनावों नें भानुकुमार जी शास्त्री जी ने 51% प्रतिशत वोट पा कर अपने निकटतम प्रतिद्वंदी स्व. श्री प्रकाश आतुर जी से मात्र 933 मत के अंतर से जीते थे. जो आज तक का सबसे कम मत अंतर है.

2023 का चुनाव शहरवासियों को एक अहम् मोड़ पर ले कर आ गया है. यह चुनाव उदयपुर के विकास और उन्नति को तय करेगा. दोनों ही दलों को एक नए उम्मीदवार का चयन करना है. श्री गुलाबचंद जी कटारिया के राज्यपाल नियुक्त होने से ही दोनों ही दलों से नित नए नाम आगे आ रहे हैं. चाहे वोह सक्रीय रूप से राजनीती करते हैं या अपना समाजिक दायित्व निभा रहे हों.यह सब होना वाजिब भी है – हर राजनैतिक कार्यकर्ता चाहता है आगे बढ़ना और एक अधिकृत उम्मीदवार होना हर किसी के लिए गौरव की बात होती है.

उम्मीदवारी कोई भी रखे, जो सब का हक है और अधिकृत जिसको भी पार्टी करे – जनता का दायित्व है ऐसे विधायक को चुनना जिसके पास उदयपुर के सुनहरे भविष्य के विकास का प्लान तैयार हो. नए प्रगतिशील उन्नत उदयपुर की सोच रखता हो. और यह सब तब हो पायेगा जब हम सब मतदाता प्रण लें की जाती /वर्ण /धर्म से ऊपर उठकर शहर का सोचेंगे. प्रलोभन और द्वेष के बिना मत प्रयोग करेंगे.

आइये हम सब तैयार हो जाये उदयपुर वासियों के एक नए विधायक देने के लिए !!

2022 – I HATE YOU

December 31, 2022

Dear 2022,

You horrible – horrible year!! I Hate you and finally Good riddance!!

I had blamed your predecessor 2020 and called it ‘annus horribilis’. How wrong was I?? You have surpassed 2020 with leaps and bounds. You have been petty, mean and absolutely abhorring.

You came and I lost my covirginity. What the first wave and omicron couldn’t do, you ensured that you screwed me however the only solace was that you were gentle and like Mallika Dua once said “कब आये कब गए मालूम ही नहीं पड़ा.”

The 4 decades of my youthful self have remained scar proof with not an iota of foreign body entering it but you mean fellow have ensured that I no more remained a virgin territory.

The second half of your life span ensured that I was put to sleep so that cameras, scissors and unmentionable things could be put in my taut stomach, to take out a dormant body part that you bought back to life oozing your negativity.

You also made sure that the measly 206 bones of my body do not remain intact and like a friend commented; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall that made me turn into an Iron-Man (Ok Titanium it was). The body feels less human and more like a piece of furniture with plates, screws that got confined in a box for 2 months.

2022, what I have ranted about have been just the physical injuries. You have played with my mental peace, emotional well being and to matters that remains strictly between the both of us.

As I look back, I wonder has there been any good news in the past one year and the answer is an emphatic NO!!

Only thing I am glad about are the people that matter have been my side and that I managed to retain my gregariousness despite you!!

Now leave and make was for 2023 with whom as of now I have zero expectations but फिर भी गले मिल कर उसका स्वागत तो करूँगा क्यूंकि –

मार ही डाले जो बेमौत यह दुनिया वोह है ,
हम जो जिंदा हैं तो जीने का हुनर रखते हैं….

Life in an OT

July 22, 2022

The first thing that came to my mind looking at the operation table where I was to be operated upon, was to pray and hope that I don’t fall off that table during the procedure for it was small and inadequate to take my body size.

Then came those planks attached to the operation table to rest my arms on and it instantly reminded of a certain shades of grey and activities associated with it.

Lo and behold!! As I lay on the table the nurse (male) started tapping/hitting my arms to find an elusive good vein (his term not mine) which was hidden under the layers of fat and shaved patches of my dark skin.

With a gown that I didn’t fit into, arm planks, hitting and needling, if I ever wanted a BDSM it seemed it was coming true on this very operation table.

Then comes the masked up amiable anesthetist who asks me if I have any vices/ addiction. I was wondering की आज इस टेबल पर surgery होगी या मेरे को therapy दी जायेगी. The list of vices and addiction was long and the thing that tops the list is over thinking and manifesting the worst case scenario in my life. बहराल यह सब तो बता न पाया उनको.

As he went about injecting the required doses of anesthesia he asked me my favorite actor and I said it is The Badshah of Bollywood (naa I didn’t get that dramatic) Mr. SRK and then he asked my favorite actor female. In that few milliseconds faces and names came rolled in my front of my eyes and in order not to breach public order/ decency and outraging my modesty (of whatever was left) on the operation table I said Alia Bhatt (Kapoor बोलना ज़रूरी तो नहीं है ना?).

The last thing I remember before I woke up on the other side of the surgery was him asking me to think of Alia Bhatt. I am still wondering whether the anesthetist had asked me to engage in emotional infidelity in order to achieve his professional goals?

Or maybe its the case of what happens on the Operation Theatre stays in the Operation Theatre!!

BTW I am all sorted now other than my cycling and trekking which is to be avoided I am up to anything you got to offer!!

UDAIPUR

July 16, 2022

Today marks the 19^th and the final day of curfew in Udaipur. We have been living under a full and or a partial curfew ever since the brutal killing of Late Shri Kanhaiyalal ji. This dastardly act has and will forever remain a black spot on the otherwise peaceful and harmonious home town of mine.

Having lived thru the carnage brought about by ‘The Rath Yatra’ of LK Advani and the aftermath of demolition of The Babri Masjid, I can safely vouch that the recent distrust and discord amongst communities has no parallel in Udaipur’s history.

Early 1990’s we were at the cusp of the cable TV explosion. The nascent news channel industry bought the images live in our homes as we watched in horror the tearing away of the communal harmony of India. Even all thru the above Udaipur remained peaceful and if my memory doesn’t fail me there was hardly any untoward incident then and curfew imposed was more precautionary than anything else.

We the people of Mewar have an icon in Maharana Pratap whose trusted aide was Hakim Khan Suri. These were the people who defeated the mighty Mughal forces without making it communal. But does that even hold true anymore?

Last month’s incident and the unravelling of the conspiracy by the NIA have left me heartbroken. Within a span of 30 years we as a community have dipped deeper in the murky waters of communal hatred and blame game. The narrative has become about us and them, about two separate communities at logger heads with each other.

As a proud Hindu who believes in the idea of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ which means “The World Is One Family”, I have always been vocal in my opposition of hatred and venom spewing towards other communities in the name of my religion even at the expense of antagonizing some friends and family members.

I have always raised my voice of the religious persecution of the minorities but I am baffled by the silence of this very class when an innocent man was killed in the name of their religion. Otherwise super active social media timelines of the so called ‘modern liberal face’ went silent on their criticism of the killing. Their silence is doing more disservice to their cause then they can currently fathom.

As the poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar has once said:

गलत बातों को खामोशी से सुनना हामी भर लेना

बहुत हैं फायदे इसमें मगर अच्छा नहीं लगता

Isabel Wilkerson in her brilliant book – CASTE, The lies that Divide Us writes that in the summer of 2016 an unaccustomed heat wave struck the Siberian tundra resulting in the children of the indigenous herdsmen fell sick from a mysterious illness that many people alive had never seen and did not recognize.

Russian authorities declared a state of emergency and began airlifting hundreds of the sickened herding people, the Nenets, to the nearest hospital in Salekhard. Scientists then identified what had afflicted the Siberian settlements. The aberrant heat had chiseled far deeper into the Russian permafrost than was normal and had exposed a toxin that had been encased since 1941, when the world was last at war. It was the pathogen anthrax.

A thawed and tainted carcass rose to the surface that summer, the pathogen awakened, intact and as powerful as it had ever been. The pathogen spores seeped into the grazing land and infected the reindeer and spread to the herders who raised and relied upon them. The anthrax, like the reactivation of the human pathogens of hatred and tribalism in this evolving century, had never died. It lay in wait, sleeping, until extreme circumstances brought it to the surface and back to life.

I just hope and pray to The Almighty that this deep-rooted hatred, bigotry remains confined in the deep permafrost where no fringe, political and religious leaders can reach and that the religious harmony, brotherhood and compassion act as an agent to permanently seal them away for good.

AMIT

June 2, 2022

“Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.”
Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue

The above quote is from the brilliant book that I had read years back – Cobalt Blue written by Sachin Kundalkar. It was originally written in Marathi which was then translated in English by Jerry Pinto.

The reason I am taking about this book because it was recently adapted for a movie by Netflix starring Prateik Babbar, Dr. Neelay Mehendale, Anjali Sivaraman, Neil Bhoopalam and Geetanjali Kulkarni amongst others.

The story is about a pair of brother-sister both whom fall in love with one man: their unnamed paying guest – A painter, a vagabond but most importantly someone whose loyalty lies only to himself. There is no betrayal but a genuine forged relationship that helps his lovers i.e. the brother and sister understand and face their inner truth and face their demons.

While watching this film I couldn’t help but go back to the character played by Prateik Babbar that of Amit in the 2008 rom-com Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na. Amit is a loner who always has a bone to pick with the boyfriend of his sister. He is an introvert with a quirky lifestyle having a mouse as a pet. Pratiek Babbar had received a special mention by the Filmfare Awards for acting in this film which was incidentally his debut performance too.

In the movie Cobalt Blue the unnamed paying guest is the sure-footed confident man with no family who moves from town to town on projects/visits. Prateik Babbar brilliantly essays both these roles seamlessly.

I strongly believe that if the character Amit from Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na had a story of its own then Cobalt Blue is perfect extension to that and helps us getting behind his motives and behavior.

I believe this is how the story of Amit goes …..

The reason he is a loner with a quirky lifestyle can be attributed to the fact he is still coming to terms with his sexuality. Over the next few years over numerous sexual interactions and failed relationships he finally comes to terms that he is someone who is attracted to both the genders and is a bisexual man. Having loved and lost he has a difficulty forging permanent relationships and always has an escape plan ready to move on, for fear of getting attached.

This very lifestyle takes him away from his immediate family, moving from one city to another monetizing his painting skills and doing customized job works. Hell bent on hiding his history and family behind a façade of fake narrative so as not to have a permanency and attachment to one place or person.

In Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na he wants nothing but the best for his sister and in Cobalt Blue he ensures that his lovers Tanay & Anuja are able to burn the bridges and move on to greater things in life. He helps them understand themselves thru him.

The story of Amit is something that is waiting to be remade as a series or a film. Amit is flawed character that is waiting to be heard and seen.

DEATH & GRIEF

May 3, 2022

Over the past two years the world has seen so much death and miniscule are those whose family has remained untouched by this pandemic. We all have lost a relative, a friend or even an acquaintance.

Alas life moves on for some and for some it comes to a complete halt with loss of one’s bearings but in either case what remains are the memories.

The moot question is how do we grieve?

George Bernard Shaw in The Doctor’s Dilemma: A Tragedy had said,
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

So when we laugh or smile, do we ever stop grieving or has it just been pushed aside for the time being?

Is grief quantifiable?

Is shedding tears a true barometer of one’s grief?

A cousin of mine visited a salon immediately after her father’s passing away, for her hair needed some touch-ups in order to look ‘decent’ for the condolence meeting. Did she stop mourning because of this or her grief any less?

Is grief directly proportional to emotional and financial needs?

How long do we grieve or what should be the mourning period?

Are those 13 days enough for one to stop mourning?

Do the dead keep living in our memories forever?

If yes then how long before it just remains a faded memory?

While we mourn the dead, do we forgive them too?

Personally for me each time I look back at some dead people, their evil deeds eclipses whatever good memories I may have had of them.

Nothing explains these questions better than the below mentioned three movies that deals with the topic of losing a family member and how each one reacts to it:

PAGLAIT

This is a film about a young widow who is indifferent to the death of her husband and unable to grieve on her loss. On the other hand are her in-laws who can’t get over the loss of their son and sole bread winner.

RAMPRASAD KI TEHRVI

This one is about siblings arriving at their ancestral homes on the death of their father. Each one trying to ascertain their financial gains, supremacy and it’s the grieving mother who is left alone to decide her future and legacy.

KARKHANISANCHI WAARI

This one is a Marathi film about a family who undertake a road trip to bury the ashes of the family patriarch and the custodian of their family land. How each is on this trip for their own gains mostly financial while the wife of the patriarch gets no time to mourn as she soon realizes the patriarch has a mistress tucked away somewhere.

Each of these movies showcases death and mourning thru a typical Indian point of view wherein entire immediate and extended family huddle together to comfort the mourning family. But it’s also the time skeletons tumbles out of the closet, relationships redefined, some new ones forged and some old healed wounds scratched opened.

Dealing with death is never easy but it is always there, staring right across our faces – ALWAYS FOR EACH LIVING SECOND OF OUR LIFE.

SEX & GENDER

April 27, 2022

How times change and with it the things kids learn in school!!

The other day I was walking with my 12 years old son and he asked me the difference between SEX & GENDER? Luckily for me I knew the basic difference and the gaps were filled by him in broader terms. He knew these terms because as a 7^th Grade student Sex & Gender studies are part of their curriculum and he learned about these terms that day itself.

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The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) released a new training manual for teachers recently. The training material describes concepts such as gender identity, gender incongruence, gender dysphoria, gender affirmation, heterosexuality, asexuality, bisexuality, among various others, in detail.

The training material also lists out a number of practical strategies for making schools sensitive and inclusive for transgender and gender non-conforming children.

I am glad the schools are open and willing to teach and talk about topics like sex, gender and stereotyping.

According to the medical website www.medicalnewstoday.com

“Sex” refers to the physical differences between people who are male, female, or intersex . A person typically has their sex assigned at birth based on physiological characteristics, including their genitalia and chromosome composition. This assigned sex is called a person’s “natal sex.”

Gender, on the other hand, involves how a person identifies. Unlike natal sex, gender is not made up of binary forms. Instead, gender is a broad spectrum. A person may identify at any point within this spectrum or outside of it entirely.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232363

As a child of the nineties we lived in a world which was so different from today’s reality. The issues remained the same for a teen then and now but they were not taught and discussed this openly.

The children live in an era of information overload and as parents it becomes imperative that they are given the right tools to process this information.

Till not too long away I too was ignorant to these terms and found the terms he/him/his in some Instagram bio pretty amusing. Then I met a Gen Z, with whom I shared my amusement. As a vocal and woke Gen Z, I was given an immediate crash course on the new Gender Identifications.

And his recommendation led me to watch this amazing series called – Sex Education on NETFLIX. The characters face these questions with confusion, aplomb and denial. They use the terms that I was given a crash course of !!

Although the series is set in United Kingdom the feelings, angst and the confusion a young adult feel is the same everywhere. We are yet to reach their level of openness but at least the new curriculum is making that beginning and talking about it.

I am glad to see the change happening and hope our children grow up to become empathetic to the new normal.

Proud Congressman

March 16, 2022

मुझे भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस का सदस्य होने पर गर्व है.

मुझे गर्व है मैं उस दल से जुड़ा हुआ हूँ जिसने पंथनिरपेक्ष भारत की संरचना की.

मुझे गर्व है पार्टी के शीर्ष नेतृत्व पर जिन्होंने हार के बावजूद कभी अपने मूल सिधान्तों को नहीं छोड़ा.

आज के दौर में जहाँ शीर्ष नेतृत्व पर हार का आरोप जड़ना fashionable हो गया है. हम सब कांग्रेस जन को अपने अन्दर झांकर देखने की भी ज़रुरत है.

यह वक़्त है पार्टी को मंथन करने का इन निम्न बिन्दुओं पर:

कांग्रेस जन को एक तराजू में ना तोला जाए. समय है सच्चे और भितरघातियों में फरक करने का.
पार्टी के वफादार और नेता के वफादारों में फरक करना होगा.
ऐसे लोगों को चिन्हित करने का जिनकी पूरी राजनीती एक दुसरे को निपटाने में ही खप जाती है.
ऐसे सदस्यों को चिन्हित करने का जो चुनाव के वक़्त अपना कार्य क्षेत्र छोड़ कर ऐसे जगह लग जाते हैं जहाँ उनकी जान है ना पहचान.
सत्ता में भागीदारी चाहने वालों को सत्ता में पहुँचाने के लिए किये गए कार्यों का हिसाब देना होगा.
नेताओं को टिकेट वितरण से पहले कार्यकर्ताओं की भावना का ध्यान रखना होगा क्यूंकि ऊपर से थोपी गयी उम्मीदवारी कार्यकर्त्ता को हताश और मायूस कर देती है.
नेताओं को सुनिश्चित करना होगा की उनके अनुयायी पार्टी के अधिकारिक उम्मीदवार के लिए ही काम करें.
पार्टी की वजह से सत्ता सुख भोगते नेताओं को पार्टी का हित सर्वोपरी रखना होगा.

जब यह सब होगा तभी सच्चे कांग्रेसी अपने को ठगा महसूस न करेंगे और जी जान से काम करेंगे हमेशा के तरह.

जय हिन्द – जय कांग्रेस

दीपक सुखाड़िया

Save our Children

December 7, 2021

Just when we all were heaving a sigh of relief from the Covid Pandemic, the world is hit by another new variant of Corona Virus – OMICRON. According to reports this is more infectious and rapidly transmitted but the jury is still out on whether it is more fatal than the previous variant.

Luckily for the adult population of India most of us are vaccinated barring some morons who are still showing vaccine hesitancy through their warped logics. What is really worrying is the unvaccinated under 18 population of India which is approximately 75 million.

The only reason we were able to bring down corona cases, was the rapid vaccinations of 18+ after the second wave. If not been for the deadly and tragic second wave the Central Government would have gladly exported our share of the vaccines leaving us unprotected and dillydallied on the vaccination drive.

Look at the slow and absolute abysmal vaccination timeline in India:

16^th January 2021 – Frontline and health workers
1^stMarch 2021 – For all above 60 and for 45+ with co-morbidities.
1^st April 2021 – 45 +
1^st May 2021 – 18+

It has been 10 months since vaccination started in India but the government is still undecided for our children i.e. population below 18. They have lost out two precious years of their childhood away from schools and friends. While some have returned to school there is always a danger to fall prey to this virus. As a paranoid over-protected parent of 12 year olds I am done with seeing my kids sitting at home and living a life in a bubble. There is no end in sight with this new variant.

World over countries have started vaccinating their children against Covid. How different are our children physiologically from them so as not to be vaccinated?

Why the over dependence on just two vaccines?

If countries can use other vaccines safely for over a year now, why and what is stopping us?

I urge and plead the government to fast track the approval of vaccines for the children and ताकि वोह अपना बचपन फिर से जी सकें !!