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An archive of hope
Updated On: 15 September, 2020 09:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Dalreen Ramos
A project aims to document acts of compassion during the pandemic across the country through stories, art and poetry
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And that journey needs to be chronicled now more than ever. This month, we learnt that India's GDP growth had contracted by 23.9 per cent through April, May and June.
"Right now, people who don't have enough are already at the bad end. While some of us are locked up at home, others are on the streets, hungry and unemployed. The apathy towards the marginalised is very clear in India but at the same time there's this spurt of citizen movements," Delhi-based development consultant and activist Nida Ansari says, adding, "People who have never done relief work before are now out on the streets —taking care of strays in their area or starting parallel collectives to deliver ration. Take, for instance, Pune-based Two Meals Extra where the idea is, since you're cooking for your family anyway, you just cook a few meals extra for the needy."
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