In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire Prashant Bhushan, one of India’s foremost and best known human rights lawyers explained the reasons why he believes the government is guilty of “gross mismanagement”. First, he said, despite receiving WHO alerts in early January the government “failed to nip the problem in the bud by conducting effective screening and surveillance of international passengers coming into India as well as carrying out a public awareness campaign”. When The Wire pointed out to him that on the 14th of April the Prime Minister had said: “Long before we had even one single case of Corona, India had started screening travellers coming from Corona effected countries at airports” Mr. Bhushan said, “he is lying”. A moment later he called the Prime Minister “a liar”. But then Mr. Bhushan corrected himself and said the Prime Minister “may be right in a technical sense”.