Factory workers are returning, to labour and an uncertain life

Like a bolt from the blue, the announcement of the first phase of lockdown caught India’s migrant workers off guard. The rest that followed was nothing short of a human tragedy. The country saw an exodus of migrant workers from the manufacturing hubs of the country, with lakhs taking the long road back to their villages by whatever means of travel possible.Migrant labourers carrying their essentials, with children on their shoulders, walked for