{"id":18406,"date":"2020-05-19T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/19\/my-angel-man-who-became-face-of-indias-stranded-helped-home-by-stranger-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T06:30:50","slug":"my-angel-man-who-became-face-of-indias-stranded-helped-home-by-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18406","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My angel\u2019: man who became face of India\u2019s stranded helped home by stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image captured the plight of the millions of migrant labourers left unable to return home in the pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/18\/coronavirus-live-news-record-daily-cases-in-south-africa-as-india-extends-lockdown\">Coronavirus &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A photograph of a migrant labourer, his face contorted with anguish as he sits on the roadside in Delhi speaking to his wife about their sick baby boy, has come to symbolise the ordeal of India\u2019s daily wage workers; penniless, and unable to get home to their families because of the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Rampukar Pandit, a construction worker in the Indian capital, had heard that his 11-month-old son was seriously unwell. With no public transport to reach his home in Begusarai in Bihar, 1,200 km (745 miles) away, he started walking. He reached Nizamuddin Bridge where, exhausted and hungry, he could go no further.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/19\/my-angel-man-who-became-face-of-indias-stranded-helped-home-by-stranger-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image captured the plight of the millions of migrant labourers left unable to return home in the pandemicCoronavirus &#8211; latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA photograph of a migrant labourer, his face contorted with anguish as he sits on the r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,59,62,1353,914,491,640,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-india","category-inequality-and-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-migration","category-migration-and-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406\/revisions\/18407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}