One of the real problems of the Indian city is that the migrant is never made to feel like a citizen. When the citizen himself doesn’t feel like a citizen, this is but expected, writes Gautam Bhatia.
Observe from any perspective – the affluent, the poor, the working class, the migrant – before the pandemic, urban life in India had deprived most people of a decent standard of living.
Will the eventual recovery from the virus also be a form of social resolution, a victory for the government, and a reunion of our varied classes and underclasses?