From shippies to students, pilgrims to professionals, Indians stranded across the world as travel gates shut down

Darpan Sharma reached San Francisco airport with 130 fellow Indians – none of them showing any symptoms of the coronavirus — to board the charter flight to India when word came through that they wouldn’t be going. The long-term implications of the pandemic on not just travel, but even jobs and the economy is only just beginning to unfold – and unfold rapidly at that.