In Modi's India, virus fallout inflames divisions between Muslims and Hindus


A man's hand is seen after washing off the home quarantine stamp on a street in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, Mumbai, India, April 11, 2020. Picture taken April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui's hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine.

But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in Mumbai's sprawling Dharavi slum, rubbed it off as best he could and went back to work. The mark would have condemned him to being stuck in an unventilated one-room home without a toilet.

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