Tanuj Luthra

Email tanuj.luthra@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Tanuj Luthra is a DPhil candidate in anthropology at the University of Oxford. His ethnographic research explores the everyday lives of informal health providers in low-income neighbourhoods in Delhi, examining how their labour mediates health outcomes, care relationships, and shifting norms around health and wellbeing in urban North India.

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‘No Covid Here’: Pandemic Afterlives in a Delhi Informal Settlement

‘No Covid Here’: Pandemic Afterlives in a Delhi Informal Settlement

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When I began doctoral fieldwork in 2022 in Unity Colony[1]—a low-income informal settlement (or Jhuggi Jhopdi Cluster) in south Delhi—just over a year after the pandemic’s second wave had ravaged the city (Ellis-Petersen, 2021), I expected to confront accounts of widespread death and devastation. Yet, during the first weeks of research, I was struck by […]