Long days' journey into flight

Book review of 1232 km: The Long Journey Home

At a time when the country is still reeling under the impact of the 2020 national lockdown, 1232 km: The Long Journey Home by national award winning director Vinod Kapri evocatively chronicles its human toll. Written like a journal and also out on Disney Hotstar as a documentary, this short book tells the story of seven migrants — Ritesh, Ashish, Ram Babu, Sonu, Krishna, Sandeep, and Mukesh — who cycled 1,232 km from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh to their hometown Saharsa in Bihar a month after the lockdown was announced. The idea of cycling 1,232 km during north India’s punishing summer