Vasavi, A.R.
The adverse integration of rural India
- Seminar
- 748, Dec, 2021: p.18-22
The experiences of many of them make for a register of the travesty of democracy, the erosion of human rights, and the onset of a callous culture. Rural migrants as urban workers, once the backbone of the rural remittance economy, lost jobs and recognized the precarity and lack of rights in their workplace. Sex workers returned to villages to face shame and ostracism, and newly independent women garment workers returned to become vassals again in their homes. Errand boys and drivers from the new gig economy found themselves shuttered out of work and burdened with the debts of their vehicles and smartphones.- Reproduced