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Book review: A scathing indictment of what was done by an administration to a people unprepared for a pandemic

A review of Harsh Mander's 'Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy'. As he journals the length and breadth of India, one cannot help but give Mr Mander credit for the number and range of real-life anecdotes he has attempted to document here.

financialexpress.com/lifestyle

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On India’s 77th Independence Day, Driven By Poverty, Caste, Millions Of Migrant Workers Live As Modern Slaves

India abolished bonded labour in 1976, but various forms of modern slavery persist, entrapping 11 million, while committees to enforce the law are absent or don’t work, and surveys to identify bonded labour have not been conducted for years. Workers are often beaten, locked up & paid well below minimum wage.

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The Quint - 'We Realise Their Importance Now': Gurugram Struggles After Muslim Migrants Flee

'We Realise Their Importance Now': Gurugram Struggles After Muslim Migrants Flee

Cleaners at posh societies, carpenters and barbers —Muslims migrants can be pivotal to the city's daily functioning.

thequint.com/news/india/we-rea

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Scroll.in - Nuh hotel razed as demolition drive continues for fourth day

Nuh hotel razed as demolition drive continues for fourth day

The authorities claimed that the communal clashes in Haryana began after hooligans threw stones at a Hindu procession from the roof of the Sahara Hotel.

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Scroll.in - Over 250 shanties of Muslim workers demolished in Nuh after Haryana violence

Over 250 shanties of Muslim workers demolished in Nuh after officials accuse them of violence

Authorities alleged that the workers participated in clashes that took place earlier this week and that the structures were built illegally on government land.

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How ‘shramik’ trains added to the misery of the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown

An excerpt from Harsh Mander's ‘Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy’.

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In Delhi's Migrant Worker Settlements, the Poor Remain Poor

The lack of infrastructure and amenities in Kapashera and Narela areas contributes to the lower socio-economic status of its residents.

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Long, Difficult Process Of Identifying The Dead Prolongs Grief & Horror For Odisha Train-Crash Families — Article 14

Long, Difficult Process Of Identifying The Dead Prolongs Grief & Horror For Odisha Train-Crash Families

A month after a three-train wreck in Balasore, Odisha, killed over 290 people on 2 June, 52 bodies are yet to be identified. As mostly low-income families wait in Bhubaneswar for the result of DNA testing, they sift between two sets of images—those of the mangled faces and bodies they have seen and the smiling ones saved on their phones, some sent minutes before the accident. While their poverty demands they return to work, desperate calls from home ask whether they will soon have the solace of the last rites.

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Migrant worker ‘beaten to death’ in Kheda, 2nd in two days in Gujarat

The victim, Ramesh Kumar Kherawar from Balrampur district of Chhattisgarh, came to Ahmedabad for work a year ago, according to complainant Manish Kumar Singh, 22, who identified Kherawar’s body at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital.

indianexpress.com/article/citi

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Tamil Nadu migrants row | Mastermind Manish Kashyap surrenders

After an investigation by EOU, it has come to the fore that most of the videos circulated on social media were fabricated and fake.

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Fake videos of mob violence deepen India’s North-South divide

The Indian right wing is accused of manufacturing tensions over the supposed bullying of migrant laborers in Tamil Nadu.

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Migrant workers allegedly attacked in TN: Hindu Munnani men among four arrested

The four men were arrested after the migrant workers were allegedly beaten near Mahaliamman temple on Edaiyar Street in Coimbatore on Sunday night.

thenewsminute.com/article/migr

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Seeman booked under additional section for hate speech against migrant workers

The recent fake videos shared on social media caused tension among the lakhs of migrant workers from North Indian states who are working in Tamil Nadu.

newindianexpress.com/states/ta

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Tamils and Biharis aren’t fighting. Something else is fuelling the fear and fury

Police control rooms in Coimbatore and Tiruppur have received hundreds of calls. Officers who can speak Hindi are answering the same question from Bihari migrants: Are we safe?

theprint.in/features/tamils-an

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Leading Indian Fact-Checker Receives Series Of Online Death Threats After Busting Fake News — Article 14

Leading Indian Fact-Checker Receives Series Of Online Death Threats After Busting Fake News

Mohammad Zubair said that while he usually ignored or laughed off the abuse he received, the latest flurry calling for violence against him increased after Alt News, for whom he works, busted fake news about murderous attacks on migrant Bihari workers in Tamil Nadu.

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Tamil Nadu Police book OpIndia CEO, editor-in-chief for ‘fake news’ creating sense of fear among migrant workers

Bihar rural development secretary D Balamurugan, who was in Tamil Nadu to interact with workers from the northern state, expressed confidence in the Tamil Nadu government’s measures to ease the fear among migrant workers.

indianexpress.com/article/citi

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TN Police Files Case Against Dainik Bhaskar, BJP Leader for Misinformation on Migrants Attacked

The Tamil Nadu police has filed a case against the Dainik Bhaskar, a Twitter handle named 'Tanveer Post' and BJP spokesperson Prashant Patel Umrao for allegedly spreading misinformation about attacks against migrant workers in the state.

thewire.in/politics/tn-police-

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Multiple Unrelated Videos Viral as Attack on Migrant Labourers in Tamil Nadu

Recently, a video went viral on social media in which an individual can be seen verbally and physically assaulting Hindi-speaking migrant labourers in a crowded train compartment. In the context of this incident, a handful of other unrelated videos are circulating on social media as visuals of assault against Hindi-speaking migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu.

thewire.in/labour/multiple-unr

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