“I started with a hope to survive this, but if I have to die on the way, then so be it,” says visibly tired Ram Nivas at the TN-Andhra border in Tiruvallur district. A resident of Himachal Pradesh, he is among the 2,000 plus migrant labourers who are on a perilous long walk from Chennai and its suburbs to their faraway homes in North India.
The old saying ‘the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step’ has turned literally true for these workers as they started walking on the Chennai-Kolkata national highway.
This story is from the May 16, 2020 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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