'It is day 7 of the lockdown and everyone says the skies are blue again.
Jamlo walks. She looks straight at the road ahead.
It is long.'
In March 2020, when twelve-year-old Jamlo Makdam was away from her home working in the chilli fields of Telangana, the government of India ordered a nationwide lockdown. Belonging to the Muria community of Adivasis in Chhattisgarh, Jamlo, like thousands of other migrant workers around the country, started walking back to her home...
'At the roadside stall, the man spreads dosa batter on the tawa. It sizzles. Jamlo watches.'
'Jamlo walks and walks in a world that needs to be kind and just and equal-a world where all lives are seen as important.'
Written by Samina Mishra
Published by Puffin, Penguin India.
