The Great Abandonment

The Great Abandonment

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 20, 2021

Runtime

0h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

76%

Original Title

पसीने की खुशबू

Director

Shirley Abraham

Description

Is it better to suffer the consequences of a lockdown or of Covid-19? That’s the harsh choice facing 11 million migrant workers in India when they have to leave their workplaces in the cities without warning. The country’s prime minister Narendra Modi sees a lockdown for India’s 1.3 billion inhabitants as a collective sacrifice that’s necessary to combat the spread of the virus, but his call to suffering only serves to outsource the miseries of the pandemic to the poorest of the poor.