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Our Vision

This migration newsroom aims to capture the journeys and challenges of India’s vast internal migrant workforce. It will document their ever-growing vulnerabilities owing to climate change and rising rural distress, while exploring solutions for the future. Through consistent reportage and innovative storytelling the portal aims to mainstream migrant matters and build a repository of research and data on the subject.

Founders

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Co-founder

Roli Srivastava is a Mumbai-based journalist and founder of The Migration Story. She reports on climate change, just transition, gender and migration, focusing mainly on India’s marginalized communities. She has worked with the Thomson Reuters Foundation as Climate and Just Transition Correspondent, and Indian newspapers including The Hindu where she was Deputy Editor and The Times of India where she was Editor, Special Projects. Her stories have won her Ulrich Schwabe Media Award 2024 for Excellent Reporting on Drug Safety, the Fetisov Journalism Award (2020), Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity (2020 and 2024) and a nomination for journalist of the year in the Drum Online Media Awards (2020). She won the COP29 Cross-Border Energy Transition Reporting Fellowship (2024), Robert Bosch Stiftung Media Ambassadors Fellowship (2015), and has presented her stories at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (2019, 2021). She was on the shortlist of the Chameli Devi Jain Award (2024). She is also a journalist trainer.

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Anuradha Nagaraj is an independent journalist and reports on labour rights, climate change and just transition. She has spent over two decades reporting on a range of issues across India. Anuradha started her career at The Indian Express newspaper as a reporter and rose to be the city editor of its Delhi edition. She also covered the Indian sub-continent for German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur and Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is the winner of the 2018 Ulrich Wickert International Award for reporting on child rights. A certified media trainer, she does training workshops for journalists and civil society groups.

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Podcast Producer

Akshay Ramuhalli is a Bangalore-based Sound engineer and music producer who specializes in audio podcast production. With over 6 years of professional experience, Akshay learned everything by working with multiple people while not having a degree in sound or music. He has worked on recording, mixing, and making specific music for the projects required for clients like Audible, Azim Premji Foundation, Amazon, and more. He also makes original music under the name of BTRPT. You can check out his work on his website: https://www.akshaygr.com/

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Head, Videos

Asmita Nandy is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker focused on documenting lives caught in the crosscurrents of gender, caste, communalism, and extremism. With eight years of experience, she works at the intersection of video journalism and long-form storytelling. Her documentary, The Making of Lynchistan, earned the Ramnath Goenka Award, and she has produced stories for newsrooms across the globe, including The Quint, Brut, French TV, Reuters, CNA, and others.

Team

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Podcast Producer

Akshay Ramuhalli is a Bangalore-based Sound engineer and music producer who specializes in audio podcast production. With over 6 years of professional experience, Akshay learned everything by working with multiple people while not having a degree in sound or music. He has worked on recording, mixing, and making specific music for the projects required for clients like Audible, Azim Premji Foundation, Amazon, and more. He also makes original music under the name of BTRPT. You can check out his work on his website: https://www.akshaygr.com/

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Head, Videos

Asmita Nandy is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker focused on documenting lives caught in the crosscurrents of gender, caste, communalism, and extremism. With eight years of experience, she works at the intersection of video journalism and long-form storytelling. Her documentary, The Making of Lynchistan, earned the Ramnath Goenka Award, and she has produced stories for newsrooms across the globe, including The Quint, Brut, French TV, Reuters, CNA, and others.

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Writer & Photographer

Deekshith R Pai is a freelance documentary photographer and writer, with a primary interest in the development sector focusing on stories around communities, gender, livelihoods, and ecology. He is also a film enthusiast and writes about films through various social lenses.

Mansi

Newsroom Intern

Mansi Bhaktwani is a Mumbai-based journalist with a post-graduate degree in journalism from St Pauls Institute of Communication Education. She works on both text and visual stories. She enjoys painting and likes learning new languages.

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Journalist

P Anima is a Delhi-based journalist who writes on climate change, energy transition, gender inequality and archaeology

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Financial Specialist

Mamata Salvi is a Mumbai-based accounts and finance specialist with over two decades experience in a variety of industry sectors.

Radha

Editor

Radha Rajadhyaksha is a Mumbai-based journalist, who, in the course of her career, has headed several editing teams at The Times of India and its allied publications. She has written on a range of subjects from cinema and music to politics, human rights, civic and consumer issues and law. After quitting TOI as Senior Editor, she wrote a cinema column for The Hindu newspaper and edited several books, among them Kamu Iyer’s book on colonial architecture called ‘Boombay’, American academic Jayson Beaster Jones’ ‘Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song’ and ‘Multiciplities’, a book on Mumbai urban heritage commissioned by MMRDA. Besides writing and editing, cinema is her passion—she has assisted acclaimed film-maker Govind Nihalani and has a diploma in screenwriting from Whistling Woods, Mumbai.

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Text Editor

Subuhi Jiwani has worked as a journalist, editor and researcher with the print, television and digital media in Mumbai for more than 15 years. Over the years, she has covered various topics, from arts and culture, gender and sexuality, and Mumbai's history to migration, agriculture and climate change. She has contributed text and video stories to publications like People's Archive of Rural India, Scroll, The Wire, Sahapedia, ART India magazine, DNA and TimeOut Mumbai, and done research for the nonfiction TV show Satyamev Jayate. She has also authored books for children (including one on India's internal migrants), and shot, edited and directed documentaries, most recently with the support of a fellowship from the Earth Journalism Network. Some of her work can be found here: https://linktr.ee/subuhijiwani

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Illustrator

Vipul Kumar is a Bangalore-based visual designer, illustrator, and graphic novels enthusiast. His design practice is inspired by everyday life, and his research interests include art as activism, with a focus on the power of art in transforming political consciousness and discourse. Vipul also works as a freelance illustrator, primarily for social impact organizations and independent researchers. Outside of work, you can find him exploring street food, making zines, or playing frisbee.

Contributors

Aishwarya Mohanty

Journalist

Aishwarya Mohanty is an independent journalist based in Odisha, and reports on the often overlapping themes of gender, human rights, climate change and environment.

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Journalist

Amoolya Rajappa is a Bengaluru-based independent journalist and reports on labour, internal migration, climate change and displacement in India.

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Journalist

Anuja, who goes by one name, is an independent journalist based in Delhi. She has reported extensively on Indian elections, political developments, parliamentary law making, informal economy, labour, gender and migration. Some of her work can be found here: https://thisisanuja.contently.com/

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Reasearcher

Namrata Raju is an independent labour and public policy researcher. Most recently, she was the Acting Head of Programme, India Director and Head of Research at Equidem, an international labour rights organisation. Over her four years at Equidem, Namrata worked with the two other members of the senior management team to build up the organisation from a small start-up into an internationally known labour rights non-profit of considerable repute. Of her work, the most known published research is the two-year investigation she led at Equidem into the exploitation of migrant workers at the FIFA-2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar. Namrata also worked closely with a small coalition of rights organisations to develop the first concerted labour and migrant rights campaign to be held on the Arab Gulf in contemporary history. With fifteen years of research experience, Namrata has worked on a range of labour migration and general labour issues, including but not limited to, recruitment; remittances; human trafficking; the future of work; informality; post-conflict livelihoods; and financial inclusion. Namrata also set up the first in-house consumer research unit in banking in the Gulf state of Oman (Bank Dhofar), the country of her residence for almost two decades. She has worked closely with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and worked towards the establishment of an internal Labour Migration Unit with the ILO-Country Office, Sri Lanka and the Maldives when she was a summer fellow at Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Programme (WAPP) in 2017, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights the same year. Namrata has been a research advisor across an array of sectors in the MENA region, including with various government departments in the GCC and banking and financial institutions. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University (2018), Masters of Economics from University of Warwick, UK (2008), and a Bachelors of Economics from Stella Maris College, India (2006).

Rishabh Shrivastav

Researcher

Rishabh Shrivastava is a researcher and writer working on issues of law, policy and development

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Journalist

Tanmoy Bhaduri is a Delhi-based development communication specialist. He is an award winning journalist and multimedia storyteller who focuses on social, cultural and environmental issues.

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Journalist

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar is an environment and science journalist based in Mumbai, India. She has worked across print, magazine, and online media for over two decades, including at the Christian Science Monitor and The Times of India. Her work has also appeared in Science, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, and other publications.

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