The news on 2nd June that almost 200 migrant workers had been killed in road accidents while walking to their home villages in India was shocking but perhaps unsurprising. The country’s lockdown had sparked the biggest mass exodus since Partition, with millions forced to trudge hundreds of miles in dangerous conditions. Nadia Nooreyezdan charts the impact on some of the world’s most vulnerable people, and asks what their experience tells us about life in Modi’s India.