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A Pandemic of Discontent: The Growing Woes of India’s Food Delivery Workers Swiggy’s moves to deal with financial losses and COVID-19 have sparked protests by its delivery boys, who have been dealt a raw deal and seen their wages decrease. Photo: PTI Tech22/Dec/2020 On March 24, after India first locked down to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, Raj*, a 27-year-old food deliveryman for Swiggy in Surat, stayed home for two days. He’d heard the police were stopping his co-workers and...

Money, and you dont know where the [ bleep ] its going to take you. >> "the wire" broke down systemic racism and the cycle of poverty like no other television show had. >> come on, get up. its a school day, youre going to be late. >> it wasnt just about, hey, look at these -- chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. >> wheres your book bag? >> so you sta...

>> i think "the wire" showed the architecture of a full city and the way it layered its characters, particularly omar. omar was, by all other facets of his life, pretty awful. >> yeah, the cheese stands alone. >> but he had this code that he lived by that made him very touchable and very human. >> hey, yo, mike. >> people were very afraid of him. and his sexuality was not necessarily weaponized against him. and for me, i didnt see black gangsters portrayed that way a lot. >> no matter what we ca...

Write a book. he and ed burns, who was a police officer, got together and said, what if we tell the whole story of the death of the american city, the futility of the war on drugs through the eyes of cops, of drug dealers. >> ive got the best territory and no kind of product. >> i got the best product but could stand a little more territory. >> of teachers, of politicians. just make the entire city into the character itself. >> you follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. but you sta...

Kids chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. >> wheres your book bag? >> so you start to get a much more realistic, three-dimensional picture of what poverty looks like in a city. >> one of the things about "the wire" that was so interesting is, it didnt rely on this traditional representation of gangsters. it didnt rely on this traditional representati...

>> i think "the wire" showed the architecture of a full city and the way it layered its characters, particularly omar. omar was, by all other facets of his life, pretty awful. >> yeah, the cheese stands alone. >> but he had this code that he lived by that made him very touchable and very human. >> hey, yo, mike. >> he was openly gay but people were also very afraid of him. and his sexuality was not necessarily weaponized against him. and for me, i didnt see black gangsters portrayed that way a l...

>> you follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. but you start to follow the money, and you dont know where the [ bleep ] its going to take you. >> "the wire" broke down systemic racism and the cycle of poverty like no other television show had. >> come on, get up. its a school day, youre going to be late. >> it wasnt just about, hey, look at these black kids chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of the...

The white house, violating our policy, and doing nit a criminal fashion. and using external sources. its amazing. >> and what strikes me in this new post report crossing the wire friday night is it does sketch, according to the post and according to their sources a view whose lawyers are supposed to say, push regard, be aggressive, but heres where the line is. thats where the national security lawyers are supposed to be. these folks also sign off on drone strikes and other serious stuff and they...

Huge saturday college football. coy wire is watching. >> where were you? i had your drink ready and you were supposed to meet me for the games. what is going on with the defending champions? unranked north carolina taking clemson to the wire. that and more coming up. something old is new again. coming up, im talking to a woman in oregon who converted or is converting old school buses into new homes for people who dont have a home. and cnn on "snl." they call this the impeachment town hall. w...

Show "the wire," you going to come at the king, you best not miss, and i think thats what nancy pelosi is thinking. she wants to make sure that all the ducks are in a row as best as can be lest they fall short of this process once begun and embolden the president headed into the 2020 election. >> okay. counselor, what would make this case if you feel that this be true, a better case for impeachment than anything having to do with the mueller investigation? >> the mueller -- im so glad you asked ...