New Delhi

On the second day of the curfew imposed to beat the COVID-19 pandemic that has unleashed its terror across India, Delhi saw workers from other states leaving for their places in hordes, ignoring the appeal by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Anil Baijal asking them to stay back.

Young men and wormen are leaving Delhi in buses from ISBT, Anand Vihar  

The Inter-state bus terminuses were the businest place where people could easily reach by the Delhi metro for boarding buses to Uttar pradesh and other places.

The rush of home-bound workers at ISBT, Anand Vihar, East Delhi, continued on Tuesday

As cameraperson Ravi Batra walked past the deserted roads and alleys of central Delhi including the walled city, he captured the images of a city under strain and pain.

The daily wage workers sitting idle in Khari Bowli market of Delhi

The pain of losing livelihoods and the threat of disease was writ on the faces as everywhere.

A lone pliceman is keeping check on those trying to violate curfew resctictions in an old Delhi street

Historic monuments stood as a silent witness to the city burdened with disease and uncertainty; wholesale markets where the work never stopped once, had come to standstill in the old Delhi areas.

Jama Masjid at Iftar time on Tuesday

Ravi Batra captured a painful scene of classrooms in a school being converted into Covid ward and isolation centres for patients. Janitors and staff were seen sprucing up the spaces, the walls of which were dotted with charts and another tell tale signs of it being a happy place once.

A classroom being converted into a COVID isolation ward

The families who lost their dear ones to the disease were seen burying them with almost no relatives to share their grief.

Covid-19 has clearly overwhelmed the city of Delhi and brought its high-velocity life to a grinding halt.

PICS: RAVI BATRA