COVID Stories from India: Long Road Home

“Long Road Home” is the third short story in the e-book series “COVID Stories from India”. It tells the inspiring journey of Kamal, a migrant worker from Jharkhand,India who faced extraordinary challenges during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the national lock-down was imposed and scathing travel restrictions prevented interstate movement, Kamal, like thousands of others, found himself stranded in the city of Chennai, where he had come to earn his living. Armed with little more than sheer determination and a simple bicycle, Kamal embarked on an unimaginable journey—cycling 1700 kilometers from Chennai to his home village in Jharkhand. This was not just a test of his physical endurance but of his mental strength, willpower, and unyielding desire to reunite with his family.