Locking Down the Poor - by Harsh Mander (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Description</p><p>In early 2020 the first cases of Covid-19 infection were confirmed in India, and</p><p>on 24 March the country's prime minister announced a nationwide lockdown, </p><p>giving the population of over 1.3 billion just four hours' notice. Within days, </p><p>it became evident that India had plunged into its biggest humanitarian crisis</p><p>since Partition. In this powerful book, Harsh Mander shows us how grave this</p><p>crisis was and continues to be, and why it is the direct consequence of public</p><p>policy choices that the Indian government made, particularly of imposing the</p><p>world's longest and most stringent lockdown, with the smallest relief package.</p><p>The Indian state abandoned its poor and marginalized, even as it destroyed their</p><p>livelihoods and pushed them to the brink of starvation.</p><p>Mander brings us voices of out-of-work daily-wage and informal workers, </p><p>the homeless and the destitute, all overwhelmed by hunger and dread. From</p><p>the highways and overcrowded quarantine centres, he brings us stories of</p><p>migrant workers who walked hundreds of kilometres to their villages or were</p><p>prevented from doing so and detained. He lays bare the criminal callousness</p><p>at the heart of a strategy that forced people to stay indoors in a country where</p><p>tens of crores live in congested shanties or single rooms with no possibility of</p><p>physical distancing, no toilets and no running water.</p><p>Combining ground reports with hard data, Mander argues with great clarity</p><p>and passion that India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe, the</p><p>effects of which will be felt for decades</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br>
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