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Hungry Bharat tries to limp back home

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NEW DELHI: The chaos at Anand Vihar terminal in the national capital perhaps best captures the human tragedy unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic that has brought life to a standstill in the world's second-most populous nation.

Images of migrants walking back to their villages and moffusils without food or water has caught the government machinery off-guard.

The growing outrage has forced some of the state governments to act and provide buses to take this workforce, that forms the bulwark of India’s informal or gig economy back to Bharat.

In what is being compared to the biggest migration on foot since partition, the sudden three-week lockdown announcement to prevent the spread of the pandemic caught these workers unaware and they found

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