Politicians and bureaucrats have become great fans of the highly disgusting and notorious word “lockdown“, which appeared in Maharashtra’s air again amid the “rising number” of Covid-19 cases. At the fag-end of February 2021, eleven months after the doomed lockdown was set out, the threat of a similar lockdown would only mean hell. According to Dr Giridhara Babu, an epidemiologist, “Lockdown was necessary in March 2020 as the health system had to be upgraded to ensure adequate oxygen supplies, medicines as well as human resources.” After settling everything down and people finding no difficulty even without vaccinations, we see a topsy-turvy. Roiled in the rising number of infections, some States, using their own set of rules for entry and exit of people, act like erstwhile local princely states with absolute power.