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If you have heard the horror stories from India during this second, deadly wave of COVID – stories of people dying in the streets for lack of beds and hospitals – those stories are true.
May 28, 2021
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Victoria-based Barokes Wines has become the first wine-maker to launch canned wine in India, despite the pandemic.
The Australian Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner for South Asia, Stuart Rees, launched the Barokes Wine brand in Mumbai on 18 February. The wine is being imported by Hover Barrell LLP in Mumbai.
Award-winning brand bets on wine retail in India
Barokes Wines is a global leader in canned wine. The company has won over 400 medals and its slim, aluminium cans are sold around the world.
Five varieties of Barokes canned wine are now available in India. These include three sparkling wines (white, rosé and red), as well as a cabernet-shiraz-merlot and a chardonnay-semillon.
By Nirmala Carvalho
Sister Sarla Macwan and Goretti Xalxo celebrated Christmas with 196 tribal migrant families from Chotanagpur. The celebration, with songs, prayers and exchange of gifts, took place on Saturday, the day after Christmas.
These families are part of a larger group of 465 migrant families who came to work in Maharashtra from the Chotanagpur plateau, which extends across the states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, more than 1,600 km from Mumbai. Unlike the others, they were unable to return to their villages during the lockdown.
On 24 March, the Indian government shut down shops and factories, leaving migrants who worked as daily labourers stranded without money, food and shelter.