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From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

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Learning to Listen

The Indian state’s lack of empathy for the weakest could be seen so clearly in the hardships it imposed on the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown. This can be fixed only by listening to people's…

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Exclusion

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From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

Interacting with the ‘Outside’

Learning to Listen

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