Last month, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day lockdown to help quell the spread of coronavirus, critical IT services backing important operations such as banking and security were exempt from it — which is resulting in roughly a third of India’s four million techies still going to the office for work, instead of working from home. As Ananya Bhattacharya noted in her story for Quartz, a lot of global companies such as General Electric, Citibank, Airbus, and Morgan Stanley, have their back-office operations situated in India, and they can’t afford to put work on hold. [Read: Video games can help…

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