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Opinion | Mahatma Gandhi’s talisman is more relevant than ever today

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Excesses against the poor during India’s lockdown reveal an amnesia that also needs to be fought Of all the images we have seen in recent weeks from around the world of the havoc that covid-19 is causing, few are as heart-breaking as the sight of thousands of Indians carrying their meagre possessions, walking on highways, after India went into a full lockdown on 24 March.

The scenes were reminiscent of 1947, when many had to leave for safety to protect themselves from their own kind, some of whom had been their neighbours.

The exodus now seems to reveal a lack of concern for India’s most vulnerable. Those motorways along which they walk are supposed to transport India from the third world to the first; the roads are meant for gleaming

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