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About a week after the lockdown began, a colleague
and I headed to the Jal Vihar bus terminal to meet a
migrant worker. The streets of Lajpat Nagar, usually
bustling with shoppers and traffic jams, were empty.We
were met by Mohammed Hakim, who led us to a small
gate behind the bus terminal and through a maze of
small alleys into the heart of Jal Vihar. With hundreds of
families crowded into tiny homes and narrow streets,
social distancing was impossible.
Kavitha, who works at my home, lives here in Jal Vihar
with her family. She is a migrant herself, having come
from a village south of Chennai to marry a Tamil man
who grew up here in Jal Vihar, who in turn is son of
migrants brought to the capital in the 1980s to build
infrastructure for the Asian Games. In fact, most of the
cleaners and cooks working in my upper-middle class
neighbourhood live here in Jal Vihar. So do the young
men who clean my neighbours’ cars every morning, or
tend the civic gardens scattered through the area.
ohammedd Hakim and about 180 other men from
Bihar’s Katihar district ply the autos and cycle-
rickshaws. The migrants at Jal Vihar had been entwined
into the daily rhythms of life in Lajpat Nagar, until the
lockdown brought that to a crashing halt.
About a week after the lockdown began, a colleague and I headed to
the Jal Vihar bus terminal to meet a migrant worker. The streets of
Lajpat Nagar, usually bustling with shoppers and traffic jams, were
empty.We were met by Mohammed Hakim, who led us to a small
gate behind the bus terminal and through a maze of small alleys into
the heart of Jal Vihar. With hundreds of families crowded into tiny
homes and narrow streets, social distancing was impossible.
Kavitha, who works at my home, lives here in Jal Vihar with her
family. She is a migrant herself, having come from a village south of
Chennai to marry a Tamil man who grew up here in Jal Vihar, who in
turn is son of migrants brought to the capital in the 1980s to build
infrastructure for the Asian Games. In fact, most of the cleaners and
cooks working in my upper-middle class neighbourhood live here in
Jal Vihar. So do the young men who clean my neighbours’ cars every
morning, or tend the civic gardens scattered through the area.
ohammedd Hakim and about 180 other men from Bihar’s Katihar
district ply the autos and cycle-rickshaws. The migrants at Jal Vihar
had been entwined into the daily rhythms of life in Lajpat Nagar,
until the lockdown brought that to a crashing halt.