Special Edition: Journalist Rana Ayyub on Why Social Distancing Is a Privilege
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In the latest special edition of the BoF Podcast, Indian journalist and author Rana Ayyub joins BoF’s Editor-in-Chief Imran Amed to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the lives thousands of migrant labourers, many of whom work in India's now-shuttered textile industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are back to launch the next global fashion brand in Making the Cut. |
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| 0:15.8 | Watch Making the Cut, only on Prime Video. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. Only on Prime Video. This lockdown has made me an upper middle class Indian realize my own privilege. |
| 0:33.1 | There's another wave to come. |
| 0:35.0 | And that wave is going to come in countries which are not nearly as prepared |
| 0:38.7 | as China or Italy. In the next two weeks, we are literally waiting for a catastrophic situation. |
| 0:45.3 | But what is worse in India is the food crisis. It's time for the world. It's time for India |
| 0:51.3 | to turn its attention to these people who have been running |
| 0:55.1 | our businesses over the years and it's time to lend a helping hand to them. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the |
| 1:07.4 | Bof podcast. In our latest special edition covering the impact of the coronavirus |
| 1:13.1 | pandemic on the global fashion industry, we go to India where the noted journalist Rana Ayyub |
| 1:20.4 | speaks to me about social distancing. And in countries like India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and elsewhere, social distancing is a privilege. |
| 1:30.5 | Rana describes the current situation in India, how the government is responding to the coronavirus |
| 1:36.2 | pandemic, and the implications for millions of garment workers, artisans, and embroiderers who serve |
| 1:43.0 | the global fashion industry. |
| 1:44.6 | This is a special episode. Don't miss it. Here's Rana Ayu, Inside Fashion. |
| 1:55.2 | Hello, Rana. How are you? |
| 1:57.1 | I'm doing well. So far, so good. I mean, how can one be in a in a lockdown? Well, I'm surviving. |
| 2:04.6 | Yeah, exactly. Are you, you're in Bombay, is that right? |
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