‘Hard to Plan Survival’: Migrants, Contract Workers on Looming Uncertainty Amidst Lockdown
Source: The Wire
In the absence of an income support package during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, low-wage workers face anxiety and economic hardship.
As Coronavirus Deepens Inequality, Inequality Worsens Its Spread
Source: New York Times
The pandemic is widening social and economic divisions that also make the virus deadlier, a self-reinforcing cycle that experts warn could have consequences for years to come.
Social Distancing and the Pandemic of Caste
Source: The Wire
Social distancing set in motion an illness whose vaccine we still have not been able to—or wished to—discover. Caste, like a virus, has the virtue of self-duplication inherent in it.