It was a hard choice to make—join the lakhs of desperate migrant workers on their perilous journey back home in March 2020 or stay put and endure the complete shutdown of life in the big city without any source of income. Banani and her family chose the former. It was three years ago around this time in March that the migrant domestic worker from West Bengal stared at this predicament filled with uncertainty and anguish. In the Sangam Vihar slum of South Delhi, where Banani lives in a tiny ramshackle hut surrounded by piles of stinking garbage, her family was trying to cut their losses.