As Covid-19 raged and forced a shutdown on Indian Railways in March 2020, tens of thousands of children dependent on a railway platform – directly or indirectly
Puneet*, an 18-year-old adolescent looks purposeful but a little restless as he moves from one trash can to the next picking up empty plastic water bottles at New Delhi Railway Station.
During the pandemic a new billionaire was created every 30 hours; for each of them, at almost the same rate, a million people could fall into extreme poverty in 2022.
The World Inequality Report states that the top one percent of the population in India accounts for a fifth of the total national income in 2021, while the bottom half accounts for just 13.1 percent.