Media, migrants and the pandemic in India : a reader

Faceless and dispossessed : India's circular migrants in the times of COVID-19 / Priya Deshingkar -- How many casual workers in the cities have sought to go home? / Nomaan Majid -- Migration in India and the impact of the lockdown on migrants / Madhunika Iyer -- Labour commissioner puts total number of migrant workers at 26 Lakh, says 10% in relief camps / Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar -- Why India's legal and labour system needs to be reconfigured to really help migrant workers / Satvik Varma -- Covid-19 crisis exposes India's neglect of informal workers / Jenny Sulfath and Balu Sunilraj -- National Commission for Women : advisory to address needs of internal women migrants in India during COVID-19 Lockdown -- How the Supreme Court and the High Courts have dealt with worst migrant crisis faced by the nation / Ejaz Maqbool, Akriti Chaubey and Mohammad Isa Hakim -- Migrants workers, the lockdown and the judiciary / Harsh Mander -- Justice Madan Lokur : Supreme Court deserves an 'F' grade for its handling of migrants / Madan B. Lokur -- Women workers in labour codes / Indrani Mazumdar and Neetha N Pillai -- No train. No bus. Just a rickety cycle to cover 600 km -- on an empty stomach / Supriya Sharma -- Nightmare on Shramik Specials / V Sridhar -- Not just the aurangabad accident, 383 people have died due to the punitive lockdown / Kabir Agarwal -- As Manipuri workers return home from goa, what does the future hold for baby Emmanuel Quarentino? / Nandita Haksar -- Covid-19 : Odia women migrants suffer mental stress, feel nobody heeds to their plight / Rakhi Ghosh -- Why don't we see the women? The untold story of Covid-19 migration / Ipsita Sapra -- Social distancing and sex workers in India / Priyanka Tripathi and Chhandita Das -- Can the State let employers walk away from lockdown wages? / Bharat Bhushan -- Hunger grows as India's lockdown kills jobs / Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar and Paaritosh Nath -- COVID-19 : intra-state migrants marooned too / Bhanupriya Rao -- Bihar's migrants return to face stigma, under-prepared medical facilities / Parul Agrawal -- Across India, workers complain that employers used lockdown to defraud them of wages they are owed / Rajiv Khandelwal -- India cannot fight a pandemic with police lathis. It must ensure people have food -- and dignity / Supriya Sharma -- Differently-abled migrant women workers grapple with the pandemic / Vedika Kakar -- Pandemic crisis : 'migrant home-based women workers work 8 hours/day for Rs 10-15 / Cenny Thomas and Nivedita Jayaram -- Pandemic induced return of the migrant workers : response of West Bengal / Debashis Aich -- May day : 12-hour working day notifications / Jane Cox -- Changes in labour laws will turn the clock back by over a century / Ramapriya Gopalakrishnan -- Labour law changes : innocuous mistakes, sleight of hand or taking sides / Atul Sood and Paaritosh Nath -- Why Adityanath's simplistic migration commission is a non-starter / Juhie Singh -- Can labour reforms help women migrant workers during COVID-19? / Ellina Samantroy -- Media in the time of COVID-19 / Bhupen Singh -- How the Modi government manufactured public opinion during the migrant crisis / Aman Abhishek -- Not just the media, organised politics too failed India's migrant workers / Ranabir Samaddar -- Migrant crisis amid COVID is why we need 'journalism of misery' / Smruti Koppikar -- Lawyer Apar Gupta on what the Indian Supreme Court's order on COVID-19 coverage means for journalists / Kunal Majumder -- Audit of bigotry : how Indian media vilified Tablighi Jamaat over coronavirus outbreak / Ayan Sharma and Chahak Gupta -- Afterword: Were any lessons learnt? / Bharat Bhushan.