Unlike the doctors, the nurses and the bureaucrats, who had taken centre stage as frontline soldiers, the Doms remained in the shadows.
Jyoti Yadav is an Assistant Editor with ThePrint. She focuses on features related to gender, youth, unemployment, and the dynamics of rural and small-town India, having extensively covered critical issues such as the Covid wave and gender representation in the judiciary. Jyoti's work has been featured in notable publications including Scroll Media and TheWire.in, and she has received multiple awards for her gender-sensitive reporting, including the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award 2020.