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Reportage

30 June 2025

Our kitchens are never empty’: Sun-dried vegetables save the dry days in Banswara

The generations-old practice of sun-drying and storing vegetables ensures the food security of the Bhil community in the region, but climatic changes are hampering this lifeline

Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

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By Invitation

30 June 2025

The overlooked housing crisis of migrant workers

Migrant worker communities in cities occupy precarious residences, ranging from informal rentals, employer-provided rooms or squatting on vacant lands. Can cities be reimagined to provide them dignified housing?

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Video

30 June 2025

EVs: From the Green to the Unseen

Moving towards EVs is necessary, but what happens to those employed in traditional automotive sector? Will jobs be created or lost?

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Reportage

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Analysis

30 June 2025

Big budgets and plans but Mumbai’s climate preparedness misses the margins

Mumbai’s early monsoon and rising heatwaves expose deep gaps in climate preparedness. Despite big plans and budgets under MCAP, vulnerable communities remain overlooked and underserved

Mansi Bhaktwani

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Reportage

27 June 2025

Displaced and disregarded: The plight of Assam’s erosion victims

River erosion in Assam renders tens of thousands landless every year. Rehabilitation is a solution, but the state’s promises and policies have not taken off, forcing many to migrate to urban centres in search of work

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Mahmodul Hassan

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Video

27 June 2025

How Reverse Migration Revived a Pottery Village in India

In Kanthaliya, a small pottery village in Murshidabad, West Bengal, reverse migration is reviving a centuries-old craft, creating jobs, and restoring pride in rural life.

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Podcast

27 June 2025

Migrants have much higher chances of getting undercounted in Census

The Indian government has this month officially notified the 2027 census, ending years of delay. But low income migrant workers have often found themselves being left out of the count due to a high mobility factor.

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Reportage

23 June 2025

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Boom or Burden? Landour’s Tourist Rush Tests the Limits of a Hill Town

Surging tourism brings income and migrants — but also crowds, traffic, and climate strain — prompting new restrictions in a town ill-equipped for the influx.

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Analysis & Data

25 June 2025

Hot February, cool May: what the first half of 2025 says about India’s shifting weather

It’s not just rising temperatures—moisture, unpredictability, and urbanisation are reshaping how India experiences heat.

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

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Analysis

23 June 2025

‘You are not my employee’

The trajectory of labour employment in the manufacturing sector—from formal to unorganized—has deepened worker insecurities and raises questions about the quality of work that a younger, newly minted generation of workers can aspire to

Rosey Mukherjee

Rosey Mukherjee

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Reportage

23 June 2025

Migration Bulletin

Chennai Corporation launches AC lounges for gig workers

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Mansi Bhaktwani

Analysis

18 June 2025

The Homecoming

A grandmother traces her grandfather’s migration journey from over a century ago to better understand her equal love for avial, payasam and litti chokha.

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Photo Essay

20 June 2025

The Homecoming

A grandmother traces her grandfather’s migration journey from over a century ago to better understand her equal love for avial, payasam and litti chokha.

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Reportage

16 June 2025

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Pedalling through heatwaves in India’s bicycle capital

Scorching heat in Ludhiana grips migrant workers walking, cycling or taking buses to work – and even an early morning ride is a losing battle against heat stress.

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Reportage

18 June 2025

The vanishing mulberry trees of Kashmir

The gradual disappearance of these trees, a part of the union territory’s heritage, has impacted the sericulture trade and led to migration, climate change and a way of life

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Khursheed Ahmad Shah

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Reportage

11 June 2025

Nourishing, everyday recipes of working-class migrants

Cooking can be a negotiation between customs from the village, the cost of ingredients, and the availability of familiar produce in Bengaluru’s migrant kitchens

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Niyati Shah

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Anoushka Srinivas

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Analysis & Data

16 June 2025

The everyday servitude of domestic workers

Domestic workers, largely women, go from their family to another family system to slave. There is an urgent need to regulate their wages, working hours and working conditions

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Podcast

16 June 2025

The big India melt: from heat stress to the politics of shade

As heatwaves sweep across large swathes of India, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, a doctoral researcher at King’s College London discusses Heat Action Plans of cities and the politics of shade

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Video

11 July 2025

“There’s poison in the air, poison in the sun. But we have to work.”

In North Delhi, at the foot of the Bhalswa landfill, women waste pickers battle deadly heatwaves, toxic fumes, and crumbling health every single day.

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Reportage

03 June 2025

In furnace-like factories, the struggle for water and wage

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Workers in spinning mills suffer from headaches, dehydration, infections and worse due to intense heat, poor ventilation and a lack of cooling, with little access to health services or time off

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Analysis

05 June 2025

A Death in the Kiln

On the dusty outskirts of Mahemdavad, Gujarat, a three-year-old's death in a brick kiln peeled back the multiple layers of bonded labour, caste exploitation and official indifference that surrounded the tragedy. What followed was resistance, fear and a fight for workers’ dignity.

Rohit Chauhan

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Reportage

03 June 2025

In furnace-like factories, the struggle for water and wage

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Workers in spinning mills suffer from headaches, dehydration, infections and worse due to intense heat, poor ventilation and a lack of cooling, with little access to health services or time off

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Reportage

03 June 2025

In furnace-like factories, the struggle for water and wage

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Workers in spinning mills suffer from headaches, dehydration, infections and worse due to intense heat, poor ventilation and a lack of cooling, with little access to health services or time off

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Analysis

23 April 2025

India’s Urban Heat Plans Are Growing—But So Is Concrete

From green shades to cold wards, municipalities are experimenting with measures to cope with rising heat. But the long-term solution lies in more climate-sensitive urban development.

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

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Reportage

11 November 2024

Exploited and abused: The alarming vulnerability of Gujarat’s migrant female workers

Tribal women working under the exploitative ‘bhagiya’ system in Gujarat are very often sexually exploited by powerful landowners and silenced by threats and gangs that force out-of-system settlements

Rohit Chauhan

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Video

10 October 2024

Playing god

In the migrant neighbourhoods of New Delhi, workers don the role of characters from the Ramayana, enthralling audiences with their performances at the annual Ramleela. Workers and their families come together for a cultural experience resonant of life back home

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Photo Essay

07 October 2024

Work and Worship

Hundreds of people migrate from rural West Bengal to Kolkata to meet the spike in demand for labour during its biggest celebration of the year: Durga Puja. Away from their families, they are integral to the festivities - from pandal decoration to making idols and transporting them

Tanmoy Bhaduri

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06 September 2024

'Climate action must be mindful of zero poverty and zero hunger goals'

Climate scientist Anjan Ray unpacks India’s clean energy goals, the impact of green energy projects on local communities and what the future holds for the country's most vulnerable.

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