Lakshman and his family, who belong to the Dhegu Megu SC community of Kodambal in Karnataka and worship Goddess Mariyamma, dance and whip themselves to earn a living in Mumbai.
Gopal Gupta, a vegetable vendor in Kalyan who tested Covid positive in March, spent nearly Rs 5 lakhs on private healthcare and still lost him later in a public hospital.
Chaos reigns outside a state-run hospital in rural Maharashtra, with families – many from Adivasi communities – seeking beds or grieving a loss in a district ill-equipped to handle COVID19.
Dharavi gives us a wake up call that social distancing is physically impossible on 250-odd hectares of land with a population of approximately 8,50,000 residents and where 10 or more people often stay in housing units measuring 250 sq. ft.
In M East ward in Mumbai, children in poor and informal settlements are being engaged in creative learning activities to distract them from the stress of COVID-19.
A single man’s drive and an empathetic community led to this community kitchen in Mumbai’s Pisavali, which has provided hundreds of food packets to migrant families.
With their money running out and little food and water available, cancer patients living on footpaths near the Tata Memorial Hospital are caught in the lockdown, with no way home.
