http://dagblog.com/link/india-extends-nationwide-lockdown-ordering-more-1-billion-people-remain-home-30845 Comments for "India extends nationwide lockdown, ordering more than 1 billion people to remain at home." en http://dagblog.com/comment/279777#comment-279777 <a id="comment-279777"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/279760#comment-279760">If you read one thing today…</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Great catch!</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p>“Maybe when Modiji decided to do this, nobody told him about us. Maybe he doesn’t know about us”, he said. </p> <p>“Us” means approximately 460m people</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>I love the use of the honorific "Modiji"</p> <p> </p> <p>Maybe we could embrace the irony, but "Triumpiji " just doesn't seem to have the same ring.  Doniji?</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:37:26 +0000 jollyroger comment 279777 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/279760#comment-279760 <a id="comment-279760"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/india-extends-nationwide-lockdown-ordering-more-1-billion-people-remain-home-30845">India extends nationwide lockdown, ordering more than 1 billion people to remain at home.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">If you read one thing today… make it this by ArundhatiRoy in the <a href="https://twitter.com/FT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FT</a> <a href="https://t.co/AVFnwfjGs7">https://t.co/AVFnwfjGs7</a><br /><br /> "Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.”</p> — Louise Redvers (@LouiseRedvers) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouiseRedvers/status/1249963852202160128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:32:24 +0000 artappraiser comment 279760 at http://dagblog.com