More than 1,000 young Indians who were actively participating in protests against CAA across India have now turned their focus to providing food for the needy during the lockdown even as the Centre struggles to help migrant and daily-wage labourers during the pandemic NEW DELHI/CHENNAI : The first thing Shaikh Tabinda Adil did after watching Narendra Modi announce a 21-day nationwide lockdown starting in the next four hours, on 24 March, was call her mother.
Adil was in Malmal, a remote village in Bihar’s Madhubani district; her mother, at home, in Mumbai. “Ammi, I’m scared. What if something happens to you?" the University of Mumbai student cried.