{"id":27094,"date":"2021-01-20T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/20\/food-to-go-covid-threatens-hyderabad-famous-street-food-carts"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:00:13","slug":"food-to-go-covid-threatens-hyderabads-famous-street-food-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27094","title":{"rendered":"Food to go? Covid threatens Hyderabad&#8217;s famous street food carts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite government loans and staff trickling back to work, the pandemic has made survival precarious for the city\u2019s vendors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 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>On a normal working day, Venkateshwara Rao would be ready by 4pm, stationed on the pavement waiting for office workers to emerge and order their favourite varieties of <em>idli<\/em> and <em>dosa<\/em> from his <em>bandi<\/em>, a food cart grandly named Kavyajyotika Tiffin Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the lockdown was lifted, but with many restrictions still in place, the inflow of customers plummeted. However, the last few weeks have been good with a handful of workers back in offices and people lining up for takeaways at my <em>bandi<\/em>,\u201d says Rao.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/20\/food-to-go-covid-threatens-hyderabad-famous-street-food-carts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite government loans and staff trickling back to work, the pandemic has made survival precarious for the city\u2019s vendorsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn a normal working day, Venkateshwara Rao would be ready by 4pm, sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1829,"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":[1066,59,62,958,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094","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\/1829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094\/revisions\/27095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}