Top Lead India
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28th May 2020
Bureaucratic apathy is turning the plight of migrant workers into a gory spectacle
Sitting comfortably at home, with a computer screen in front, and a full belly, if I pretend to understand the misery of a migrant worker trudging hundreds of miles back home, I am lying.
On social media, there is anger, appeal, and acrimony among groups and individuals, and plethora of images and videos depicting the sufferings, which has become synonymous to migrant workers’ exodus.
A crisis as unprecedented as the COVID-19 just underscores the fault lines of a sector that has never been car