| People from India's northeast, home to 46 million citizens, are being attacked and abused as "corona" because of their Far Eastern features. It was 9 p.m., and the streets were mostly empty. A 25-year-old woman from the northeast Indian state of Manipur was on her way to her rented room in New Delhi after buying groceries with her friend, through an alley she knew well. A middle-aged man driving toward them from the opposite direction suddenly slowed down and spat in her face, “like I was a pile of garbage or a roadside drain,” recalls the woman, who has requested anonymity. Before speeding away, the man shouted “corona” at her. | 
