I have been wanting to write this for the last one year. We (SWAN) are gearing up to release a video to remember or recall the last one year since the lockdown. This post isn’t going to be about any issues that would matter. This is my experience of being part of SWAN, a volunteer group forContinue reading “A year since SWAN”
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When I came on TV!
At 9.30 am, I woke up feeling very happy ( This rarely happens!). I was still lazing in my bed and obviously the first thing to check is whatsapp. So I opened the chats and skipped a few and noticed a buzz on my SWAN volunteer group. Some Backstory: On the previous day, on theContinue reading “When I came on TV!”
The Long Road Home: A Day in the Life of a Stranded Migrant Worker in Bengaluru
May 17, 2020, 4 pm: A volunteer with the Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN) gets a call from Sanoj. He is one among 15 migrant workers who had vacated their rented rooms in Bengaluru on May 10, hoping to return to their home states – in his case, Jharkhand. Sanoj recounts in Hindi that, whenContinue reading “The Long Road Home: A Day in the Life of a Stranded Migrant Worker in Bengaluru”
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