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Laboured resilience: Decades of migration builds a new future for a once-impoverished Odisha village
Workers ensure a flow of funds home to Kalahandi from Kerala, transforming lives of their families, with many aiming to save enough to...

Purusottam Thakur
2 days ago13 min read


The crackdown that's emptying out Gurugram’s Bengali migrant hubs
In Gurugram, hundreds of Bengali-speaking workers, many of them Indian citizens, now live in fear after a police crackdown on “illegal...

Naila Khan and Huzair Hayyat
2 days ago1 min read


Bihar's ballot: SIR's impact on Bihari migrant workers
The yellow taxi isn’t just a vehicle—it’s a livelihood, a symbol, whose history has been carried by generations of migrant drivers in...

Anuja
Aug 221 min read


As Kolkata’s ‘visual icons’ fade, migrant drivers hit roadblock
The yellow taxi isn’t just a vehicle—it’s a livelihood, a symbol, whose history has been carried by generations of migrant drivers in...

Tanmoy Bhaduri
Aug 226 min read


Waste Pickers vs Plastic Crisis | Inside the UN Treaty Talks in Geneva
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Ravleen Kaur
Aug 181 min read


‘Pushed out of comfort zone’: As migrants flee, urban homes feel the pinch
The migrant workers’ exodus from Gurugram amid a crackdown by the police has disrupted domestic work and sanitation, with residents...
Sanskriti Talwar
Aug 1810 min read


Cloudbursts, Crowds and Chaos
The recent flash floods in Uttarkashi aren’t surprising for campaigners speaking up against rising pilgrim numbers, unchecked...
deepti750
Aug 137 min read


Bridging the Gulf
The continued suffering of migrants owing to extractive work practices and discriminatory legal and policy regimes in the Gulf explains...

Namrata Raju & Akshay Ramuhalli
Aug 131 min read


How heat divides by class
Dizzy spells, irregular periods and no access to medical aid. Delhi's scorching heat before the rains hit the capital impacted its...

Tulika Bansal
Aug 1110 min read


Coming home to roost: Of migratory birds and reverse migrations
In the Mangalajodi wetlands of Odisha’s, men migrating for work turn conservationists and guides for birding enthusiasts during tourist...

Aishwarya Mohanty
Aug 117 min read


How Musahar women in Varanasi brick kilns are reclaiming the right to breastfeed
As the World Breastfeeding Week (August 1–7) concludes today, a peek into the brick kilns of Uttar Pradesh reveals how informed choices,...

Soha Moitra
Aug 77 min read


Recipe for disaster: Fast-Tracked Clearances, Paper Certifications, No Oversight
The carnage seen at Sigachi factory blast in Telangana is not the first where workers and their families have borne the brunt and will...

Rosey Mukherjee
Aug 68 min read


From dust to just: Indian coal and just transitions
Ca n we superimpose solutions from Western countries as we seek out these “Just Transitions” in the coal industry Namrata Raju

Namrata Raju
Jul 311 min read


Uttarakhand’s Ghost Villages: The Hidden Migration Crisis
Over 1,700 ghost villages now lie empty across the Himalayan state, homes locked, fields barren, and communities lost. Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty
Jul 311 min read


The Making of a Migrant City
From tents in the rain to teeming barracks and now cramped vertical slums, Ulhasnagar has seen generations of migrants, first from Sindh,...
Dr Agrima Thakur
Jul 319 min read


Dying far from home: Agonising wait for Odisha migrant workers’ families
Labourers who travel cross-country with a promise to return often don’t make the final journey back, their bereaved families left to...

Aishwarya Mohanty
Jul 3115 min read


'This story was a bite away'
The culinary traditions and practices of migrants carry more than just flavour—they hold stories of survival, longing, memory, and...
Amoolya Rajappa Akshay Ramuhalli
Jul 301 min read


Crushed fingers, delayed aid: Invisible injuries in India’s auto sector
More than 7,000 auto-sector workers have suffered severe workplace injuries since 2016, mostly in the supply chains of India’s top...
Sanskriti Talwar
Jul 3013 min read


When mobile populations are excluded from mobile banking
Namrata Raju Low-wage migrants play a substantial role in our economic development but struggle to access financial services

Namrata Raju
Jul 281 min read


From Gurgaon to Chicago, a global wake-up call on floods
More cities are flooding under heavy rains, but drainage, zoning, and warning systems lag far behind. Vaishnavi Chandrasekar Pic credit:...

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar
Jul 286 min read

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