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Why have you taken the risk to come here?

The Corono virus panic was all over world. And in India, the first case was identified at the end of Janauary. Slowly when the panic was building up in the country and we at Janastu were planning field travel to the villages in Uttar Pradesh in the month of march for our new project. Team of 8 were planned for the trip. Our tickets were booked and all other arrangements were done. When the cases were increasing and first death was reported in the country and the state we were residing, the fear of travel started and slowly the team were dropping from the travel plan. By the time of travel date only 2 person decided to travel considering the need of social distancing and avoid visiting in groups to the villages.

We carried our necessary safety kits and flew. Flight seemed to be fully packed. Although we could see people wearing masks but no social distance norms were followed. We reached UP. We met people, interacted with villagers, youngsters. Our project inception travel was going good, then people ask this question. Why have you taken all the risk to come here? The interesting one when they realized we hailed from Bengaluru, there was mixed reaction. One ofcourse the growing covid cases and Bengaluru is the happening and rich city. Whatever it is they were happy to share their space and time and we enjoyed their hospitality. Now it was the time the Indian government announced one day Janata curfew and there were talks about country going into lockdown. We decided to come back to Bengaluru. We reached. Curfew happened and immediately lockdown was annouced.

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Although there was a bizzare start of lockdown, Janastu explored ways to engage the team and work. Team started working from home and unsure of when we could physically travel again. Team meetings were happening and it was fun. This was something new and everyday it happened with guests or just team and catchup with lockdown issues and plan followup activities. We tried different opensource video conferencing tool like jitsi,nextcloud talks, 8x8.vc,classmeet. Lockdown has been miserable for many migrant workers, craftspeople and daily wage earners. We focused on collecting stories and tools to help archive them.

Below link shares stories of MMU group in UP state who are helping the migrants workers

https://hackmd.io/fp1u264jTGWWsYGXPBUVEg

Exploring these tools were interesting as these were necessary for our project plan. The original plan was to introduce mesh networks and Pi recorders to get young women to share living stories from the community. After lockdown, we had to restrategise.

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Towards a narrative report While the city, the town and the villages where we work shutdown and we started working from home, a number of activities intensified. We switched to daily online team meetings at a regular hour that is convinient to all and this helped us being connected and to share and listen to each other. We soon noticed we and our friends were all very busy with many webinars on many topics of interest. Months have gone by by now staying home online and reflecting on activities of the past year and the future. The lockdown was overnight and drastic in India. The announced lockdown was for a few weeks initially (later came to be called "lockdown stage 1"), not unlike in other places around the world. As it extended to stage 2, there was considerable panic among the daily wage and short term contractual job seekers. India became know for stories of "reverse migrants" walking hundreds to thousands of miles home as all carriage of personal was disallowed. Work at our craft center and the village came to a halt as the master crafts people had returned to their home towns just days before the lockdown. Its eight months now and still there is no sign of normalcy at the craft center. Villagers who have small land holdings are less affected as over the weeks the farm produce could reach the near by towns. Most other needs were served by large companies, often international ones such as Amazon, and food deliveries such as Swiggy. The effect of this is that most of the small producers have shut shop even after eight months of the Pandemic. The community radio setup in the village had stopped just before the lockdown as our young radio jockeys eloped one day - while "express yourself" we had said, we had to be sensitive to the families and the village. We thank APC for the much needed contingency support, that helped us attend to some of the following activities - in particular those that required support thanks to lockdown, from relief to community network activities.

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