IT’s been five years. The devastating images of migrant workers walking back to their villages to escape the COVID-19 crisis have been buried under the apathetic rhetoric of “Viksit Bharat.” The haunting images of homebound workers struggling to find food, transportation, shelter, medicine, oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, and even the dignity of a proper burial or cremation have slowly disappeared amid the ever-changing content in mainstream broadcast and social media.
