The visuals of crowded railway stations, bus stands in metro cities, and migrant workers walking hundreds of kilometers on highways with families and children remain an impressionable and daunting image in my mind as many of us sat in the safe confinements of our homes. Panicked and distressed by the first government-proclaimed lockdown on March 23, 2020, unsure of their future, the "migrants" searched for any possibility that would transport them to the safe havens of their hometowns and villages. A disease that traveled through international boundaries and metro cities, and penetrated remote villages affected those already on the margins of social cleavages the most.