Lockdown Crisis
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After the trauma of Covid-19 lockdown, some of India’s migrants have resolved to work closer to home
In 2020, about 1.1 crore migrants travelled thousands of kilometres in scorching heat amid pandemic curbs.
Anuja, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Poverty, debt, hunger: How India’s Covid-19 lockdown hurt its domestic workers
In a survey, nearly 60% of 795 domestic workers interviewed said that their employers did not pay them during the pandemic-induced restrictions.
Pragathi Ravi, IndiaSpend.com
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Second wave of Covid-19 has left migrant workers in India with no savings and few job opportunities
As India reported a record number of coronavirus cases and deaths, the migrant crisis continued.
Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com
Trending
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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Indian economy to be hardest hit by Covid-19 despite recovery, predicts new OECD report
The high growth in 2021 cannot undo the damage caused by the country’s harsh lockdown.
Shoaib Daniyal
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On Yamuna’s dirty banks, brotherhood of the dispossessed gathers in the only place they know as home
They prefer the unsanitary, inhospitable stretch along the river to the hot, crowded shelters to which they were taken.
Harsh Mander
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Following authoritarian regimes around the world, India is using Covid-19 pandemic to crush dissent
In Delhi, large numbers of people – many of them Muslim – have been arrested in cases related to the CAA-NRC protests and recent communal riots.
Harsh Mander & Amitanshu Verma
Video
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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In Assam’s Barpeta, a woman lost her four-day-old baby amid struggle to survive the lockdown
‘We are barely keeping ourselves alive,’ she said.
Abdul Kalam Azad & Kazi Sharowar Hussain
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In Western Assam, a single mother struggles to put food on her family’s plate amid lockdown
On most days, Marjina and her family eat just boiled rice with salt and water.
Abdul Kalam Azad & Harsh Mander
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Covid-19 lockdown: A cloth trader recounts his grueling walk from Gujarat to Uttar Pradesh
Shamim went days without food, water or sleep. Daily phone calls to his family is what kept him going.
Harsh Mander
The Reel
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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In Haryana’s Nuh district, locked-down and hungry residents are living off sporadic acts of charity
Shahnaz, a domestic helper, and her family do not know where their meals are coming from.
Harsh Mander
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‘I cannot eat or sleep’: In Assam, farmers grown anxious as vegetables go unsold amid lockdown
150 small farmers who were interviewed said they would each lose Rs 20,000 on average.
Harsh Mander & Abdul Kalam Azad