Outlook Magazine - June 08, 2020

In this issue

COVER STORY
Millions of bedraggled migrants marched their way
back from the cities to their villages. Outlook caught
up with some of them at their homes...to know their
stories, to know their plans for the future.

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED PASSES
How will aggressive posturing and transgressions
along the Line of Actual Control impact
India-China relations?

OPENCAST CANOPY
Coal India Limited has been mining in the
Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary since
2003. As it seeks further clearances,
opposition intensifies.

Patrol Bombs

Border tensions spike suddenly along the LAC, as sections in India join others in criticising China’s handling of COVID-19. Yet the two have enough reasons to resolve all issues peacefully.

7 mins

What The Otter Knows About The Cyclone

The Sunderbans is safe—as is the tiger. Nature has no intention to create disharmony within itself

5 mins

AT WORLD'S END

How do you trace the outlines of pain on a gigantic, subcontinental scale…a cartography of pain, if you like? Take as your sketching ink some extremes of the human condition. As it happens, it’s available in plenty in the real world. The basic facts will do. On May 23, a 48-year-old migrant labourer died on the Shramik Express—minutes before the train from Mumbai pulled into the last station, Varanasi. A fabled last station, civilisationally. But why did Jokhan Yadav die? First, there was the heat. Then, he had gone without food or water for over 60 hours, as he moved over the northern Indian plains, like lakhs of others, trying to reach his hometown Jaunpur. No food or water was served on the train during the entire journey. And stick-wielding GRP personnel wouldn’t let anybody get down from the train. It thus became, in a perversion of how it was intended, a moving concentration camp.

7 mins

HOME BITTER HOME

A viral photo of a weeping man put the spotlight on his dire circumstances. But by then, it was too late.

5 mins

As He Lay Dying

Amrit and Saiyub’s bond of friendship, forged in childhood, would break cruelly on a hot, dusty highway. This is their story.

5 mins

Driest Land, Deepest Sea

Migrant workers who returned to Hamirpur’s Jhalokhar village oscillate between hope and disillusionment. There’s little work at home, and the cities have let them down badly.

4 mins

Tour De Force

Stranded in Vishakhapatnam, the five friends wanted to go home. Their bicycle journey up the coast to Bengal displayed endurance and willpower.

3 mins

Life's A Sand Bar

The pressing reasons why Ashadul is raring to get back to Bangalore

3 mins

Silence of the Malls

Northeasterners who worked in Chennai’s malls and parlours are waiting to go back home

3 mins

Cycle Ride To Uncertainty

He cycled 1,700 km from his workplace to a home with no prospects

3 mins

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