India, Sept. 4 -- During the COVID-19 pandemic, a vast number of individuals and institutions provided ready-to-eat food or ration kits to those in need, including migrant workers, those stranded away from home, and those travelling by trains, organised by the government.

In April 2020, while I was volunteering for Saad Pratishthan, an NGO based in Pune, I met a twenty-five-year-old man in Kodhwa. We were distributing packets of cooked khichadi when he and his younger brother came on a scooter with a box full of biscuits and water. He told me that his family was taking care of food arrangements for almost sixty people belonging to the Potraj community who lived nearby, and that they would cook food for more if we told him where it was ne...