Women who have been supporting the household through their unpaid housework and sometimes their jobs and livelihoods are also being forced to stay at home and face various kinds of abuse throughout the day…
Ragini has been working in the Durry Mill in Banda for years. As a disabled person, she has beaten the odds to find regular work that has helped keep her…
How bureaucratic hurdles robbed migrant workers of dignity during lockdown Historian Dipesh Chakraborty famously suggested that under colonialism, Indians were relegated to the ‘imaginary waiting room of history.’ We were…
The Indian Railways has operated more than 1,600 Shramik Special trains to carry over 21.5 lakh migrant workers home since the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Yet, this endeavour seems like a drop in…
“I felt very scared the first time that I had to work with a positive patient. More than me, my family was scared for me. So that always adds a…
This couple in Banda decided to ditch their ghoonghat and sehra for masks and did a quickie corona wedding with less than 10 guests in attendance A lockdown…
Back in UP’s Banda on Shramik Special, migrant labourers look back on long journey home Maneuvering the lockdown, contradictory government mandates and the always looming threat of both the virus…
With whole families under lockdown for weeks on end, rural men continue to abdicate their share of responsibilities of housework and caregiving to the women. “In the morning, I swept…
On the morning of the 4 of May, a Monday, we received some tragic news. Our friend and accomplished journalist Rizwana Tabassum was no longer with us. The news had…
A family of wedding-season workers arrived in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh in the hopes of employment. Instead, the lockdown has put them in a forced exile. It has been…
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