Please do NOT donate to the PM CARES fund. Ideally, don& #39;t even donate to the CM funds - donate to org.s with a strong sense of the ground reality. If you& #39;d like suggestions, ask [me or whoever]. There are good places to donate massive amounts as well - for tax type reasons etc.

Working on relief operations on the ground has shown very clearly that where state funds are being used [if at all] they are being used in daft, often meaningless ways. It& #39;s small collectives, NGOs and so on who are actually doing the work.

Here in Bhopal the PDS shops aren& #39;t even providing the pittance they promise, and the BMC claims to be serving lakhs of meals a day but we are yet to meet a SINGLE person in any of the bastis we work in who has received one.

Yet painting of signs on roads [during a lockdown?!?!? where you aren& #39;t allowing people onto the roads!!??] goes on apace. When I say on roads, I mean it literally - they are painting the asphalt. No one can see what the heck the message is anyway. Why so colourful @OfficeofSSC ?