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In 'Grapes of Wrath' people buy cars, leave home and drive in search of a better future. In India, those stories are playing out in reverse.
It's people abandoning the promise of a better tomorrow to get back home.
It's people abandoning the promise of a better tomorrow to get back home.
It's people walking/hitchhiking to their home states and then being barred from entering for hours: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/coronavirus-lockdown-mp-borders-on-edge-as-migrants-try-to-reach-up-bihar-6407122/
It's people attempting to cycle hundreds, if not thousands of kilometres, on empty stomachs having lost money and jobs. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/punjab-migrants-india-lockdown-6407435/
It's a family and livelihood crammed in autorickshaw attempting to get back home, but being stopped in their tracks. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/up-migrants-deaths-coronavirus-made-it-so-far-now-im-going-back-with-bodies-of-wife-kid-6407241/
It's a caravan of rickshaws travelling across the country. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/migrant-workers-leave-mumbai-for-up-in-taxis-auto-rickshaws/articleshow/75674487.cms
It's a family of four balancing on a cycle trying to get home, that is 750 km away. If you cycle, you know the theoretical impossibility of cycling that distance balancing three people. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cycling-home-to-chhattisgarh-couple-killed-in-accident-children-survive-6400883/
