But he adds that his legal challenge isn’t about him. “This is bigger than any one profession. It will affect everyone,” he says.
He points to wide discrepancies between the official account of Covid’s impact on the country and the assessment of international agencies. “The WHO has said that Covid deaths in India were about 10 times more than the official count. Anybody even referring to that could be labeled a fake news peddler, and it would have to be taken down.”
In April 2021, India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, was…