Mohammad Saiyub (above, in a Mumbai quarter on a February day) appeared in a photo that went viral in the early days of the pandemic. He and his childhood buddy Amrit Kumar were hitching home, a ...

Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound has brought Mohammad Sayyub and Amrit Kumar’s heartbreaking story to the global stage but the people of the village in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district are still waiting for a ...