Harsh Mander: How ‘shramik’ trains added to the misery of the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown
An excerpt from ‘Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy’. Migrant labourers arriving from Maharashtra wait in a queue for Covid-19 test at Hatia Railway Station in Ranchi. | PTI It was only after five weeks of lockdown and searing images of thousands of walking migrants, many with…