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TeamLease chairman Manish Sabharwal is optimistic that India will come out of the crisis stronger & also spelt out reasons why the second wave is vastly different from the first. "The darkest hour is just before dawn," he told us in this interview.
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"I think expanding vaccines, deregulating prices of vaccines will have a massive supply response."

"I am not sure we dropped the ball. Vaccine capacity was taking time to get up. The government was not holding vaccines to people above 45 because they wanted to but because they had to. You can take the view that we should not be exporting, but these are complex tradeoffs "

"Post mortems have a certainty that prescriptions don’t, so when we look back, there are obviously things that could have been done differently that every decision-maker doesn’t know when they make it. "

"I don’t think there are good choices here, there are only bad and worse choices and we are picking the least bad choices."

"There is light at the end of the tunnel: vaccines. Last year, there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Ten percent of our population is vaccinated, once we get to 30-40 percent, there will be a substantial difference. The darkest hour is just before dawn."

"I would be careful about viewing Covid as climate change; it is a passing shower. There may be some recurrences, but it has reminded us that resilience is as important as performance. Too many supply chains had become just in time; now we have to make them just in case."

"I think it also reminds us that we tend to focus on issues when it comes to our vicinity — where you stand on issues depends on where you sit. The pre-existing faultlines in our labour market are being amplified by Covid."