Lockdown stories around us are invariably of the hard-luck variety. It has been a punishing time for everyone, especially so for those whose cheap labour fuels economic growth. They have been trapped in inhospitable situations for a long time, but what they have now experienced was unimaginable.
Yet, if the general picture is one of gloom and doom, of joblessness and broken dreams, there have also been instances of people beating back the lockdown with extraordinary resilience and inventiveness.
Our cover story this month is on farmers in a corner in Karnataka who succeeded in getting. . .
