{"id":49856,"date":"2022-11-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/01\/women-behind-the-lens-india-covid-lockdown"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:15:00","slug":"women-behind-the-lens-she-was-about-to-make-an-arduous-journey-with-a-child-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49856","title":{"rendered":"Women behind the lens: \u2018She was about to make an arduous journey, with a child, in a pandemic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samyukta Lakshmi recalls the first chaotic weeks of India\u2019s Covid lockdown \u2013 and the woman and child at the front of the queue for a train out of Bengaluru<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 lockdown in India was announced on 25 March 2020 with only 4 hours\u2019 notice, leaving the country in a state of frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with dwindling savings due to unemployment during the lockdown, millions of migrant workers made the decision to return to their home towns from cities across India, sparking the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/india-wracked-by-greatest-exodus-since-partition-due-to-coronavirus\">biggest exodus since partition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Samyukta Lakshmi is a documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Bengaluru, India. Her work focuses on vulnerable communities, social inequality, the human spirit, resilience and climate change<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/01\/women-behind-the-lens-india-covid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samyukta Lakshmi recalls the first chaotic weeks of India\u2019s Covid lockdown \u2013 and the woman and child at the front of the queue for a train out of BengaluruThe Covid-19 lockdown in India was announced on 25 March 2020 with only 4 hours\u2019 notice, leaving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3405,"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":[1066,59,62,92,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-photography","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\/49856","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\/3405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49857,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856\/revisions\/49857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}