Lords of Lockdown

Anxious out of work and without access to transport during the nationwide COVID19 lockdown in 2020 migrant labourers in Indias metropolises decided to walk back home to their villages en masse As news channels beamed heartrending silhouettes of millions of men women and children marching along national highways with their meagre belongings it became plain that the lockdown had already drafted one of the most traumatic chapters in the nations modern history