Weekend Reads Make fun of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s symbolic events through the coronavirus lockdown all you like, writes Shekhar Gu...
Weekend Reads
- Make fun of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s symbolic events through the coronavirus lockdown all you like, writes Shekhar Gupta in the Print. “Modi is winning. Why should he be complaining? Or bothering with usual suspects accusing him of infantilising his voters when they are happy being just that: obedient infants?”
- Ajeet Mahale, Omar Rashid and Jatin Anand in the Hindu bring you stories of the migrant workers in India taking the long way home. “The police beat me every time I tried to reach the expressway on both days. I will get on any bus, any vehicle; I’ll start walking from wherever it drops me.”
- “We used to spend what we earned daily. Without that, there is no food for my two children. So we must go home where my family is.” Dipankar Ghose in the Indian Express travels across four states to track the migrant exodus.
- For middle-class India, the front lines of the coronavirus battle are Resident Welfare Associations, some going so far as to try and kick out those supposed to be in quarantine, while others banding together during the lockdown, as Asmita Bakshi reports in Mint.
- Calls to domestic abuse helplines have actually gone down during the lockdown, reports Adrija Bose for News18: “The reason is just one, the monsters are at home.”
- “From my balcony, I...
