The 'pizza langar' has hogged headlines and garnered compliments from different quarters, and also brickbats from a certain section.
Volunteers from a multitude of non-profit organisations have been supplying coffee, tea, milk, jaggery, dates, and peanuts to the farmers in their trolleys and sheds.
Come ill-health, physical discomfort or family occasions, the men keep up the cheer and ensure their physical limitations don't cloud their optimism and their will to win the fight.
'Why do politicians ask for votes if they cannot rehabilitate us? Where do we go -- to the footpath?'
The nodal officer for novel coronavirus at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi has not been home for nearly five months. Duty and fear of spreading the infection among the family members kept him away.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has hit businesses and people who could afford four goats till last year do not have enough money to buy even one this Eid.
'This is a dangerous job, as I am at a higher risk of contracting the infection, but I need the job'
"I have only Rs 200 left with me. I have not even got the refund for the cancelled ticket. We don't have agricultural land back home. I know it will be hard there, but I will be with my family. I am happy having 'roti and chutney' with them," says Jitendra Mahto, a migrant.
'They treat us like garbage. We are not humans for them'
'It's our duty, and we are not going to step back from it. The entire country, including our prime minister, has been supporting us'
'Lekin jab ghar hi jal gaya to coronavirus kya kar lega'
Scores of people in violence-hit areas of northeast Delhi have been spending their nights in the dark as power lines damaged during the riots remain unrepaired and dangle precariously outside their houses.
In the Majnu Ka Tila area in New Delhi, Children carrying tricolour burst crackers and shouted 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'.
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