The letter, like his earlier ones to the Prime Minister, also makes some suggestions for containing the pandemic that has claimed over 2.34 lakh lives in the past year, with 3915 fatalities added to this figure in the past 24 hours. Gandhi implores Modi to also “understand India’s responsibility in a globalized and interconnected world,” and says, “the pandemic has demonstrated that our size, genetic diversity, and complexity make India fertile ground for the virus to rapidly mutate, transforming itself into a more contagious and more dangerous form. The double and triple mutant strains that we are currently grappling with are only the beginning, I fear.”