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ARTICLES FROM
STUDENTS
A TALE OF TWO IN THE CITY
A TALE OF TWO IN
THE CITY
SHIBANJAN DUTTA
-By Shibanjan Dutta
How about someone stuck in a house which isn’t even just a set of
four walls with a roof over it, let alone the attributes which make it
a home? How about waking up every day to a reality with
horripilation and threat of existence, same as what had haunted you
AN in your dreams a few hours ago? Sounds sensationalised right? Yes,
ETHNOGRAPHIC it would have seemed the same to me, a snippet out of a Hollywood
STUDY OF THE fiction, if the COVID-19 lockdown didn’t turn this into a reality.
EFFECTS OF While most of us were commenting on the news and plight of the
PANDEMIC ON thousands with some mere words on social media, we were
DAILY WAGE- implicitly shedding off responsibilities with false hopes on
EARNERS institutions taking care of them. This article is based on a set of
telephonic surveys that were conducted on the urban poor and I
hope to revisit a glimpse of the reality that haunted many during
- By Sagar Kumar the COVID-19 lockdown.
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