 Broadly, India has two categories of migrant laborers, one who migrate temporarily or provisionally out of India that is overseas or another category who migrate domestically on a seasonal and work available basis. Seasonal migration for work is an inexorable hard fact, especially in rural India. The estimate is that more than 120 million people, that is 12 crore or more, migrate from rural areas to urban sector, labour markets, industries and farms. Poverty, lack of job, prospects, socio-political and socio-economic factors, struggles are some of the key reasons for the migration of workers from their respective homes to far off places. During this unprecedented trying and testing times of coronavirus pandemic, the migrant laborers have witnessed, I think, the most turbulent, horrible times of their lives. They have been subjected to violence, humiliation and discrimination, sadly by their own people, their own community, their own loved ones. As the misery struck, migrant laborers have been on the move and in dire straits for days and months, and with many of whom still trying to reach their homes or having collapsed on their way home, or ironically, despite reaching home being targeted as corona transmitters or corona carriers, yes, that's how they are being named as, they have become subjects of hatred and bias, as somebody pointed out in one of the articles so vividly that the change in people's perception is threatening to cause a social conflict in the state as the very slogan of social distancing appears to be virtually turning into social discrimination. That's what is happening. It was reported in that article that a group of 21 laborers that reached Patna from Delhi after walking constantly for 13 days on foot suffered a severe emotional setback when the local residents, can you believe it, local residents addressed them as corona wale and tease them by saying, Dekho corona wale aagai, you know, are we, are we, you know, entering into the phase of untouchables part two in our country? Is that what is happening horrendous? If that be so, we Indians will never be able to forgive ourselves. Can you believe that, that some migrant laborers have narrated in a section of media that they were completely aghast as to why such treatment was being meted out to them? Why people were driving them away when they stopped near some people's homes to take some rest and even, you know, they were prevented from having water from their hand pumps. But then few felt pity for their plight and offered them food and water on their way home. Citing another horrifying episode, a pregnant woman who walked some 900 kilometer to reach her home state faced further dreadful behavior from the doctors. Can you imagine who refused to admit her to the hospital after she went into labor pain? Because the medical staff feared she could be infected with corona virus. This incident occurred on the UP Bihar border or near the UP Bihar border. In many villages I am told that the locals have fortified and cordoned off the villages and the returning migrant laborers are being pushed into the makeshift quarantine centers lacking basic amenities. They are being treated as outcasts, untouchables. The central and the state governments are not to be blamed for every such incident. It is us, we who are responsible for this inhuman behavior. We are literally failing as humans to take a lesson from COVID-19 which I feel, believe me, is the last and final chance for the mankind to mend ways, to be sensitive, to co-exist, to have empathy, understanding and compassion. Well, I would end my video talk here. See you next time with another video talk on an issue of your choice. Thank you.