About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

3 Current Res. J. Soc. Sci. & Human. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/crjssh3 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 03, No. (1) 2020, Pg. 01-02 Current Research Journal of Social Sciences jou rnalofsocialsciences.org COVID 19 and a Different World DR JYOTI ATWAL Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Article History Published on: 29 June 2020 Dear Friends Hope you are staying safe and keeping healthy! COVID 19 has made world a very different place to live in. Due to its scope, magnitude and deep impact, COVID 19 will be the main theme of research in the times to come, especially in the post pandemic period when people settle down back into their daily routine. At present there are all over the world 9,472,473 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and unfortunately 484,236 people have died according to the World Health Organisation. However in the context of India I wish to flag some issues of sociological concerm. It is interesting to note that although pandemic has created common grief, suffering and economic devastation, it has somewhat acted as a leveller - it has impacted rich and poor. The pandemic has impacted India in a multi dimesnsional way. There appears to have been a class wise suffering. To begin with, economies all over the world have suffered but India's labourers went through a different kind of a suffering. Apart from being jobless, they also became homeless and starved. Help, in the form of temporary shelter and food came mostly from a combined effort of NGOs, Gurudwaras and State government. After the funds and patience dried up, the migrants workers undertook journey back home (in the absence of trains and buses), which proved to be an extraordinary ordeal for the workers. Several workers travelled by foot to their villages, most with children and no food or water. Some even died a brutal death. However most have returned to the villages and don't plan to return to the city for a while. CONTACT Dr Jyoti Atwal 6 jyotiatjnu@gmail.com 9 Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Enviro Research Publishers. This is an a Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CRJSSH.3.1.01

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most