we will get response from a student who organized a protest on campus and speak with historian sam redman, historian at the university of massachusetts amherst. author of "bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. india has recorded 3500 new coronavirus deaths and a record 386,000 new confirmed cases as the world's second largest nation faces a catastrophic collapse of its healthcare system with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen. public health officials fear the true death toll is far higher. residents fear the worst is yet to come. >> the situation is horrific, absolutely terrible. everyone is afraid. people are afraid if i'm talking to a person, maybe i won't get to talk to them or the near future. the death toll is 200,000 today. he can go up to 400,000 or even a million. the environment is of fear. it is pathetic over here. we don't even have oxygen cylinders or its parts. amy: the indian novelist arundhati roy writes in a new essay -- "th