There is a great dignity in the stoic march of India’s workers as they leave India’s national capital, one of the world’s most populated cities, and head to their villages hundreds of miles away. It is the relatively healthy that have decided to walk their way out of joblessness and impending penury to return to their villages in the face of the 21 day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to combat the spread of Corona Virus. As India walks home, many say they will get food to survive during the harvest season in the village. In the plains of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where most of the migrants are headed, wheat is sown in November-December and harvested in April.
Journalists who have permission to venture out in the national capital would see groups of walkers, starting from the southern extremities of Delhi where there is a border with Gurugram in Haryana state, to the border on the east of the city with Uttar Pradesh, where the Anand Vihar Bus terminal is located. According to goog