Migrants Through Time

Outlook's upcoming issue serves as a reminder that three years ago, countless migrant workers walked hundreds of miles across the country as they were abandoned during the lockdown.

Sheher mein mazdoor jaisa dar-ba-dar koi nahin
Jisne sab ke ghar banaye, uska ghar koi nahin.

(In the city, nobody is as displaced as a labourer,
They build houses for others, but have no home of their own.)

—Anonymous