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Hundreds of migrant workers march carrying their personal belongings in Hyderabad, Telangana during the Corona Covid19 Lockdown. The workers can be heard telling their mates to keep walking. Poor labourers in India lost hope in their ability to earn a living in India's big urban centers and cities, and started to return to their rural roots, at the beginning of the Covid 19 lockdowns, in a migration that was perhaps larger than the Partition of India. Labour migration on the scale of the Indian Partition took place during Covid lockdowns when poor labourers in India could not imagine a future for themselves in India's cities. The migrants are finally provided with some relief as buses to take them home is arranged. The workers in hundreds stand in front of the buses as most of them will b
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