"I don't believe in demonizing anybody," said actor Cate Blanchett in interviews promoting her much-hyped new FX series, Mrs. America, which premiered this week. "We are all full of contradictions and hypocrisies. No one is perfect, including Phyllis, although her hair was mostly always perfect."

India is four times more populous than the US, but has just 2% the number of cases and only 1.5% of the number of Covid-19 deaths. How has the country, whose per capita income is just tenth of the US, avoided being flattened by the pandemic?