Article | As COVID-19 Rages, the Road Ahead for Migrant Workers in Himachal Looks Bleak

By Manshi Asher & Himshi Singh In the third week of April, India’s raging pandemic’s second wave burst onto our phone screens with aerial images of burning pyres in crematoriums. Not very far away in the upper reaches of Pangi in Himachal, temperatures hit a sudden low due to heavy snowfall. Five migrant workers lay […]

COVID-19 & CRISIS RESPONSE IN THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH A Discussion Note

We are currently under the grip of a pandemic by the name of COVID-19 that has brought life to a standstill as we know it. This world-wide public health crisis has affected the lives and livelihoods of billions of people, and governments have been forced to take stern measures to tackle the contagion in the […]