 Hello friends and comrades. I am talking, working for Roja Lagyambak Foundation, speaking from my home office in Delhi. India is under complete lockdown since 24th April. Initially lockdown was planned for three weeks, but it now extended until the third of May. All public transport has stopped. We are only allowed to go outside for things absolutely necessary like food. The street border is closed. The government is telling us to stay inside our house. Not everyone is privileged to stay at home and do home office as anyone else in the world. In India, people from marginalized groups are most affected by the lockdown. For example, the migrant worker or people who earn their livelihood on a daily basis, they are starving because they can't earn any money at this moment. Government is trying to provide food to those people, but it's far from their requirement. In many parts of the country, it is the civil society which is putting a lot of efforts and resources to help those people. Minority population are suffering as well as under this impact of the coronavirus. The media is stigmatizing the Muslims for spreading the virus after there were cases of coronavirus linked to the member of one sect of Muslims. After this, the entire community was being targeted by hate campaign which happened on social media. Now, people started by cutting the Muslims in their localities. The hatred is not new in India. The far right groups have been active for quite some time in our country in targeting Muslims based on their identity, but the current hatred associated with virus added more fuel to existing Islamophobes in our country. In India, Muslims are mostly engaged with informal sector or particularly on self-employed. Many incidents are coming into the media where people are asking the name of a mobile estate vendor who sells vegetables or fruits if they found Muslim vendor who are asking to leave those localities. In many cases, vendor being physically harassed. In some places, Muslim vendor started mentioning Hindu name so they can sell their goods for sustaining their livelihood in this crisis. But then, people are asking identity card from those vendor which is certainly against the law of our nation. Some vendor have complained against this kind of harassment to the authorities, but ultimately marginalised groups are being pushed towards more vulnerable situations. In this time of Corona, people need compassion and solidarity more than ever. Please be healthy, as just safe. Thank you.