coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.After a strict lockdown in March that left millions on the brink of starvation, the government and people of the world's second-most populous country decided life must go on.Sonali Dange, for instance, has two young daughters and an elderly mother-in-law to look after.
She was hospitalised this year in excruciating pain after catching the coronavirus.But after the lockdown exhausted the family's savings, the 29-year-old had to return to work at a factory where she earns 25,000 rupees ($340) a month."Now that I have recovered, I am no longer so scared of the disease,".