Topical analysis of migration coverage during lockdown in India by mainstream print media

We conduct our experiments on news articles relevant to domestic migration happening in India during country lockdown amid COVID-19 pandemic. We performed a manual inspection on Indian mainstream printed news media websites and selected The Hindu and Times of India newspapers on the basis of the circulation, popularity and readership. We manually collect the links to these articles to ensure minimum noise (irrelevant articles) in our dataset. We use pandemic and migration related keywords and collect URLs to 2170 unique news articles published in the months of May and June, 2020. We utilise Newspaper3k (https://pypi.org/project/newspaper3k/) python library to download the news article content from these URLs.