Employers provide direct financial or in-kind ‘support’ to their workers. In most households this is a form of benevolence, not an entitlement. This can change.

The WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for infants until six months of age. Although women in the formal sector get maternity leave, for the vast section of women in the informal sector, this is not possible.

Middle-class protests are few and far between in Ahmedabad, but they hold a great significance.

If the recently acquired extended employment authorisation for dependents is overturned – which appears increasingly likely under the Trump administration - it will push many people several years behind.