Covid-19 Frontline Warriors
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How chef Saransh Goila ensures every quarantined Covid-19 patient is well-fed
The Goila Butter Chicken founder has launched a tech-based platform to connect food volunteers with patients unable to cook for themselves
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How this NGO brought the joy of learning to thousands of underprivileged children pan-India during the pandemic
Santosh Phad's ThinkSharp Foundation is taking smart devices equipped with free books and learning material to villages, so that underprivileged children are not left out during the pandemic
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Covid-19: India's young step up to save lives
A group of 60-odd youngsters, who didn't know each other till a few weeks ago, are working tirelessly together to provide information on resources to those asking for help on micro-blogging platform Twitter
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National Doctor's Day: Why each day is a new struggle for these resident doctors
Inadequate facilities, stigma, low salaries, even violence—resident doctors posted on Covid-19 duty battle every day atrocities and work without recognition, but form the most important pillar of a hospital
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Covid-19 warriors: Fear has no place in this garbage collector's lexicon
Parveen Karambir Dingya has worked resiliently through the lockdown, believing that destiny will control his fate with respect to the virus
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Don't call us heroes. We are victims: Workers who cross the 'Lakshman Rekha' daily
Unpaid salaries, unreasonable managers and entitled residents: A host of essential workers in Delhi say that despite not being infected by the virus, they are 'dying a slow death' every day
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Covid-19 warriors: A window to the world for residents in containment
Security guard Ramashankar Dubey says that with no visitors, his physical load has decreased, but he is constantly fielding questions and collecting and delivering parcels for building residents, who are holed in with two positive Covid-19 cases in the building
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Breaking hierarchies in ICU to combat Covid-19
Chief intensivist Dr Darshana Rathod says a healthy working atmosphere and supportive team have made her hospital stint enjoyable, even during the pandemic
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Covid-19 warriors: This 24-yr-old Uber driver ferries critical patients for treatment
Pooja Kumari enrolled herself in the UberMedic programme to fill in for the few ambulance services available to cancer and dialysis patients during the lockdown, a job that involves driving about 200 km every day
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What it's like working at the Taj hotel in Mumbai, offering quarantine services
The Taj Mahal Palace in Colaba is sold out for international travellers on most days, isolating to control the spread of Covid-19. Here's what a day in the life of deputy general manager Mehrnavaz Avari looks like
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'They don't want to die here': Inside a migrant labour helpline during Covid-19
Part of a team of 15, Bahadur Singh Ahirwal's helpline would get 700-900 calls a day at the peak of lockdown, from people who had been hungry for days, separated from their families, looking for a way home. A 'matter of life and death', they decided no call would go unattended