Below is the transcript of the presentation that [M Robert's] made on 30 April to the Indian Students Forum (TISS) in Mumbai. It has been published by Students’ Struggle, the monthly bulletin of the Students Federation of India, a student organisation associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). It is a little out of date on the COVID-19 cases and deaths but [MR] am republishing the presentation to blog readers as i think it still sums up my position on the nature of coronavirus crisis. It is very long. But this is an exception to the rule. It was transcribed for us by Goutham Radhakrishnan, a research scholar at TISS.