Amid the coronavirus scare, racism and prejudices have reared their ugly head in Kolkata.
While healthcare professionals, airlines’ crew and foreign returnees and their family members are facing social ostracism and worse from their neighbours, many from the North East and Darjeeling Hills with Mongoloid features have been the subject of racist slurs and attacks.
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