Thousands of workers who pin their hopes of earning a little extra in Ramzan, have not only lost their livelihood due to covid-19, but have also been stripped of their dignity, as they now have to rely on government handouts or donations A little after 10 a.m, in the by-lanes of Aman Nagar in Hyderabad’s old city, children are playing while parents sit outside their homes, bored out of their wits.
Mohd. Jawed, a 38-year-old artisan, at this time of the year would have been at work, that almost doubles in the month of Ramzan.
But this year, thanks to the ongoing lockdown, Jawed, who has been out of work since then, will be glad if he even finds work once the lockdown is lifted. “I embroider designs on clothes at a workshop and used to earn