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Behram Baug’s samaritan

"During the early days I was outside the (western suburban) colony gates buying vegetables when I saw many elderly people struggling with masks and shopping bags laden with onions and potatoes,” recalled Behram Baug resident Zeenobia Printer on June 30, 2020. She was referring to the lockdown imposed in the fourth week of March 2020 to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. "They were buying frantically, almost like kaalé nahi malsé tau su karsu [what will we do if we do not get (the vegetables) tomorrow].” Starting with the assistance of her husband Khurshed, the homemaker and part-time craftswoman took......



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