The Spectacle of the mass exodus of migrants following lockdowns during the first wave of Covid-19 in India brought to centre-stage a migrant discourse that exposed various fault lines in Indian Society such as class, caste, gender, religion and ethnicity, which tended to magnify during the crisis. Moreover, the state’s failure to stand with and care for its toiling classes, particularly migrants, has intensified debate on state, democracy, citizenship, market, mobility, domicile, welfarism, urbanism, labour, foreign policy vis-a-vis overseas Indian migrants, human-pathogen relations, and right to life and livelihoods.