NEW DELHI, July 26 -- Last week, we witnessed a joke being played out in the Upper House of Parliament. No one can forget the misery and the helplessness almost everyone faced just three months ago when the country was reeling under the strenuous second wave of Covid-19. Yet, the government mocked at those who lost their lives due to the shortage of the life-saving gas - oxygen. Instead of paying homage to the departed souls or learning lessons from what failed us, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, who holds a coveted post in the ministry of family and health welfare, said that "no deaths due to lack of oxygen has been specifically reported by any state or Union Territory." India has lost close to 4,20,000 lives during the last one and a half y...