India, the world's second biggest country, has gone into lockdown mode for three weeks over the COVID-19 pandemic.
With a population of over 1.3 billion people, including the poor, the homeless and hundreds of millions of daily wage workers, the decision's posing huge logistical problems.
For starters, millions of people are undertaking cross-country journeys home: this has caused the biggest movement of people seen in the country since partition.
Meanwhile there's uncertainty over what kind of support and social assistance the Indian government is able to offer the country's poorest people. Samanth Subramanian is a journalist, author, quiz obsessive, and host of The Intersection podcast.
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