[speaking foreign language] ♪♪♪ emma: acclaimed writer arundhati roy is spending lockdown at her homethe city. she's a long time campaigner for the rights of india's dispossessed rural poor. arundhati roy: until about 15 years ago, india was a country where i would say something like 80% of the population lived in rural areas and was involved in agricultural activity. and there was a huge attack on village people, you know, in terms of huge infrastructure projects, dams, building highways, and millions of people were being displaced and driven into the city out of complete despair. people who had farmland around cities now turned it into sort of workers quarters, and then they literally crammed 10 workers into a room. they are exploited. they are forced to buy rations from these landlords. they're living in sort of--conditions. emma: for sanjiv and the millions of other indians crammed into slums, getting ill from covid-19 is a real concern. [speaking foreign language] emma: twenty households share one tap, which often runs for just an hour a day. [speaking foreign language] emma: the