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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: Goonj Founder Anshu Gupta Explains Why It's Wrong to Say Migrant Workers Are 'Escaping'
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DISCLAIMER: This podcast has been recorded on Skype due to the ongoing lockdown. We apologise for the bad audio quality.
Even though the coronavirus pandemic is the big crisis of the moment, for the underprivileged it is hunger and starvation that is the bigger crisis.
Did it take a pandemic and a lockdown for the country’s privileged to understand who does the bulk of our work?
The migrant labourers who help in running are households are stuck in cities without jobs and money. The farmers who bring food to our plate are at the...