The New Normal

In Bangalore, migrants are blamed for a host of problems like lack of civic sense, population, changing demographics, lowering the standards of living, increasing crime rates etc. Now that many have gone home and there is no picture of their return plans, I wonder if we'll begin wooing them officially. Small shops around are feeling their absence already. 

I must clarify here that I'm using the term migrant somewhat freely here to mean the North and East Indian labourers. Because to be precise, I'm a migrant myself and so are thousands more, who have stayed put in Bangalore during this crisis, who've not had to worry about livelihood even a day in the last two months. There are also migrant labourers from other parts of Karnataka. But yet, I find that in everyone's mind there is a clear distinction.