Sashikala VP
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No rides, no income
Ola and Uber drivers started suffering even before the lockdown. Now they have to sit at home with no social security except that Uber will look after any driver who tests positive for 14 days It was a couple of days before March 22, the day the first lockdown in Delhi was announced until the […]
No meat on their tables
Exports of buffalo meat, a huge earner of foreign exchange for India, have been hit as demand for the product in other countries has fallen MEAT, ESPECIALLY buffalo meat, is one of the most wanted exports out of India but Covid-19 seems to be inching closer to destroying its prospects. Along with several other items […]
Stuck in India
Many foreign nationals are stranded in India. Either travel to their countries is banned by the government or airlines are cancelling flights NYUGEN THI HUE, a Vietnamese citizen, had made her way to India on March 10 to attend a wedding, with her return flight booked for the 16th. She was informed on the 14th […]
No arrivals, only cancellations
The tourism industry is hurting — not just travel agencies but also guides, vendors and rickshaw pullers whose daily earnings have dried up SUSHEEL VERMA is operations manager at Janta Travels, a travel agency which has been around since 1977. He says the only time the company witnessed a downturn in business was after the […]
Cops terrorise riot-hit areas
Police are questioning the injured who have registered medico-legal cases, arresting Muslims who guarded a temple and detaining men randomly IT HAS been more than two weeks since Delhi witnessed gruesome riots which have left 53 people dead. The violence which broke out on the evening of 24 February and went on till 27th has […]
‘Please let us give our board exams’
ALONG WITH the destruction of schools, the riots also affected those students who were going to appear for their 10th and 12th Board exams. We met many of those, and their only request was that the government takes cognisance of their situation, delay the exams and provide them with the much-needed course books destroyed in […]
When death came knocking
The victims of the Delhi riots were no criminals, they were ordinary people going about their daily life. they were killed on their way back from work, others while coming back home after visiting their relatives, some who had gone out to buy milk, another who had gone shopping for a wedding; many were also […]
Disfigured, dislocated…riots have left victims bereft
Acid has been used in the Delhi riots. The exodus has begun as people of the minority community are now planning to move out of their localities, convinced that their lives are not secure ‘HUMNE SOCH liya hai, ab hum yahan nahin reh sakte’ (We have decided we cannot live here), family members of those […]