Despite what some sections of the internet might want to portray or believe, India is not a totalitarian state in the vein of China or Vietnam that can effectiv

Despite what some sections of the internet might want to portray or believe, India is not a totalitarian state in the vein of China or Vietnam that can effectively censor speech on an almost watertight level. There is no Great Firewall here that can filter internet traffic in real time that such a large scale narrative control requires. And even China with the great firewall was not able to hold this in completely. Do you think the government would have been able to hide the large number of deaths that would have occurred, if the death rate was the same as reported by Europeans and Americans? It's not easy to hide a large amount of bodies, given that half of the country is ruled by political outfits that oppose the central government. The dead bodies in real life don't just vanish into thin air like in star wars.