Visualizing a Journey

  I have mentioned in my earlier posts about my evening walks. While on an evening walk, I happened to see numerous business card sized massaging service paper ads all over the side walk, partly buried in the sand. The card was quite simple, it had a phone number in a big typeface and an attractive Indian girl in traditional cloth on the front, probably a south Indian Actress. On the very top, it says Indian Massaging service. I am quite sure it could be an ad for sex work. The country I'm at being a conservative Muslim country, that does not allow mixed schools or gyms, I am quite certain that its view on opposite gender massage isn't very forgiving one, let alone sex work. That said, it's not like sex work doesn't happen here at all. I imagine its not easy to eradicate one of the most ancient professions with harsh laws and religion.  People would always find their way around these barriers and that is why these ads are quite interesting. When I first saw them on the

 I wanted to explore a project on tableau. No, that's not where this story begins. Way before I knew what tableau is or even what visualizing what data is, I was reading about the migrant crisis in lockdown. It was heartbreaking because it's pure neglect. In the government's decision making, the whole community of daily wage migrants was overlooked. It seems unreal, because we have 45.36 crore migrants in this nation of ours. Its not a number that could or do disappear when we talk about India or its economy if you have to think that way, but it did. The migrant crisis made headlines with its heartbreaking stories, of mothers dying beside their toddlers, walking workers dying of exhaustion and suicide. The final lethal blow to the entire affair came months later, when the government announced that there is no data of the migrant sufferings and deaths.  "When there is no accountability, there will also be no responsibility" That was until I came across the data fro