The COVID-19 crisis brought the woes of Indian platform workers into sharp focus, as the lack of labor rights—regulated work hours, minimum wages, data rights, and social protection—exacerbated the precarity and insecurity of their work. As the lockdown was implemented in major cities, digital delivery platforms became all-purpose pick-and-drop services in response to surging demand.

This year witnessed a renewed reckoning about the rights and wrongs of partition. Both Palestine and Ireland—partition scenarios most commonly associated with India and Pakistan—have seen debates about the merits of the process of partition and its finality played out with a greater urgency over the past few months. For India, lessons offered from both these locations should be valuable, particularly in the current context of the attempt to politically weaponize Partition memories.