In this article for CSRMandate, Arun Kumar and Sarojini Pradhan talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic, which began as a health crisis in March 2020, quickly morphed into a humanitarian crisis. People began to talk about the “invisibles”, whose labour has been critical in running the city, becoming “visible” for the first time.
Arun Kumar talks to Mumbai Mirror about how the urban poor, who have worked in Mumbai for years, do not have the means to buy food for their family even for a week. “Then, there is something seriously wrong with the kind of society we have formed and the economy we run.”
Arun Kumar and Poornima Nair speak to The Wire about the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the residents of the city’s M East ward: from forcing expecting mothers to give birth at homes to the shuttering of immunisation services and more.
