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Very good writer, but he personally wound me up with his public "Great Escape" from India during the pandemic and laid himself open to the criticism that follow
by vr46 2y ago
Very good writer, but he personally wound me up with his public "Great Escape" from India during the pandemic and laid himself open to the criticism that followed, of being a fairweather friend.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWhat exactly is the criticism here? He didn't strand himself in a particular densely populated foreign country while COVID lockdowns were happening across the world? He would be a better friend to India if he stayed there, contracted COVID, and put more strain on their healthcare system to the detriment of actual citizens?
- vr46 2y agoHis words, in the context of Indian, Britishness, colonialism, his own writing and the suffering of those he had left behind - he himself apologised for the message "being tone deaf & reeking with privilege" and I think it was quite reasonable that people were irritated by his posts of palm trees and sunny beaches while so few others had the choice. And secondly, he lives there, it was not a "foreign" country and he was not "stranded". He lives there.