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Where India’s government has failed in the pandemic, its people have stepped in

Civil society has outperformed the state in helping to feed India’s poorest. It should be seen as ally not enemyThe highways connecting India’s overcrowded cities to the villages had not seen anything like it since the time of partition 73 years ago. H…

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‘They are starving’: women in India’s sex industry struggle for survival

Exclusion from government Covid-19 relief has left many reliant on private food donations, as fears raised over protection from transmission after lockdownRasheeda Bibi has five rupees to her name. A worker in India’s sex industry, she lives in the nar…

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