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‘Poverty is my fate’: Construction worker Gulzar’s song about struggles during the Covid-19 lockdown

‘I’m far away from the happiness of the times we live in.’

Scroll Staff
Jun 04, 2021 · 03:00 pm

Woke up to Gulzar sending me his poetry.

Gulzar used to do construction work in Goa. In the last year he has had to flee home (to Jharkhand) twice bcz of unplanned lockdowns & loss of work, in inhumane conditions in trains.
Can we truly hear Gulzar and lakhs like him?😭 pic.twitter.com/kHZCezxaY0

— Shireen Azam (@shireenazam) June 3, 2021
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