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A homeless man eats his lunch in front of a wall painting extolling the glory of India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Sujatha Surepally: What be charity but an old feudal measure to...

Free lunches won't keep the migrant worker from wanting to go home and start over

12 April 2020 4:47 PM GMT

Gypsy women prepare lunch in their hut in New Delhi on April 4, 2020. (PTI)

What social distancing is possible in a hut?

37% of Indians live in a one-room dwelling, and 32% in a two-room house/dwelling

8 April 2020 7:01 PM GMT

This image posted on prime minister Narendra Modis Twitter account shows him lighting an oil lamp to mark the countrys fight against the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, April 5, 2020.(AP/Twitter)

Pavan K Varma: Why didn't the PM focus on steps to help the needy?

It is sobering to remember that many migrant workers were not at home to light a lamp

6 April 2020 9:52 AM GMT

One needed a vast amount of ineptitude to create the conditions in which we landed.

Veena Das: Charity can't win this war on the poor

Please redirect the massive structure of surveillance you've built to the task of providing services to the poor right...

6 April 2020 3:17 AM GMT

The IIT campus at Kandi village in Sangareddy distrct of Telangana. (Asian Age Photo)

Unpaid and hemmed in, migrant workers erupt in anger at IIT Hyderabad

Unpaid and hemmed in, migrant workers erupt in anger at IIT Hyderabad

29 April 2020 8:11 PM GMT

These migrant workers were determined to walk all the way to their village in Tamil Nad. (DC Photo: SSR)

Used as photo ops by VIPs, migrant workers beg to be allowed to go...

At some shelters, food is delayed until a politician comes to pose for pictures

26 April 2020 9:44 AM GMT

People in large numbers gather on a street in Visakhapatnam to receive food distributed by donors. (AA Photo: K N Murali Krishna)

AA Edit: Are we winning or losing after one month of lockdown?

The nation has benefited from the lockdown but the jury is still out whether it matches the losses incurred

25 April 2020 10:55 PM GMT

A stranded migrant worker carries a child as she crosses the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway during the nationwide lockdown in Palghar, Maharashtra. PTI photo

Migrant workers' wages: Supreme Court seeks Govt's reply

Workers' plight worries judges, next hearing April 7; Centre says shut PIL shops'

3 April 2020 7:45 PM GMT

Migrant workers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Dev 360: Lockdown, long march: Catastrophe looming

If we don't take immediate measures to mitigate the larger human crisis the lockdown has triggered, we are heading...

2 April 2020 8:24 AM GMT

Qatar ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Qatar's migrant workers including Indians on Gulf crisis frontline

While Qatar's Western expats are likely to ride out the economic impact, there is no such luxury for Ajit and his...

15 Jun 2017 1:43 PM GMT

Relatives mourn near the deceased after the coffins arrival on an Indian Air Force plane from Kuwait at the Cochin International Airport in Kochi on June 14, 2024. Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport on June 14 as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home. Wednesdays dawn blaze quickly engulfed a housing block home to some of the many foreign labourers servicing the oil-rich gulf states economy. (Photo by Arun CHANDRABOSE / AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Ensure Indians forced to work abroad remain...

India's Struggle with Migrant Worker Rights: A Call for Decent Conditions and Economic Empowerment

17 Jun 2024 7:16 PM GMT