11th May, 2020
THE COVID-19 epidemic has starkly highlighted the role of sanitation in our everyday lives, even as it has also brought into relief the unrewarded and tragically under-appreciated labour of sanitation workers, who are actually frontline health workers that play a profoundly important role in the business of keeping us all well. As opposed to this reality, the sentiments that inform much of the popular imagination on sanitation work are those relating to its horrific casteist foundations.Read More...