{"product_id":"locking-down-the-poor-paperback","title":"Locking Down the Poor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarsh Mander\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn early 2020 the first cases of Covid-19 infection were confirmed in India, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon 24 March the country's prime minister announced a nationwide lockdown, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egiving the population of over 1.3 billion just four hours' notice. Within days, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit became evident that India had plunged into its biggest humanitarian crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esince Partition. In this powerful book, Harsh Mander shows us how grave this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecrisis was and continues to be, and why it is the direct consequence of public\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epolicy choices that the Indian government made, particularly of imposing the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld's longest and most stringent lockdown, with the smallest relief package.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Indian state abandoned its poor and marginalized, even as it destroyed their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elivelihoods and pushed them to the brink of starvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMander brings us voices of out-of-work daily-wage and informal workers, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe homeless and the destitute, all overwhelmed by hunger and dread. From\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe highways and overcrowded quarantine centres, he brings us stories of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emigrant workers who walked hundreds of kilometres to their villages or were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprevented from doing so and detained. He lays bare the criminal callousness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the heart of a strategy that forced people to stay indoors in a country where\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etens of crores live in congested shanties or single rooms with no possibility of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephysical distancing, no toilets and no running water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining ground reports with hard data, Mander argues with great clarity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand passion that India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeffects of which will be felt for decades\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42708514013247,"sku":"9789389958775","price":16.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/85ffb6ea2c12eb1553d2a9bf4822f778.webp?v=1765048083","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/locking-down-the-poor-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}