The announcement of the national lockdown in India on 24 March 2020 triggered fear and panic among the people. A dystopian future of Mad Max and The Waste Land started playing in the minds of the millions. The middle class in urban India started its preparation by stockpiling whatever it deemed necessary. Various gated communities piled additional rules and clauses for self-preservation, sometimes bordering on hysteria and lack of common sense. Fear, selfpreservation, and distrust of the outsiders underpinned the dispositions of the people in the gated communities. All in the hope that they will be shielded in an impenetrable cocoon that will keep out the virus which was circulating outside their well-protected walls. The irony is that the virus was imported by the global Indians and corporate middle-class in the gated communities!

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印度移民劳工的“长征”：城市与道德愤怒

印度于 2020 年 3 月 24 日宣布全国封锁，引发了人们的恐惧和恐慌。疯狂的麦克斯和荒原的反乌托邦未来开始在数百万人的脑海中上演。印度城市的中产阶级通过囤积他们认为必要的任何东西来开始准备。各种封闭式社区为自我保护堆积了额外的规则和条款，有时近乎歇斯底里和缺乏常识。恐惧、自我保护和对局外人的不信任支撑着封闭社区中人们的性格。所有人都希望他们将被保护在一个无法穿透的茧中，这将阻止病毒在他们保护良好的墙外传播。具有讽刺意味的是，该病毒是由封闭社区中的全球印度人和企业中产阶级输入的！