To protect street vendors/urban workers from the impact of rising heat, Indian cities need inclusive policies.

Unconscious, frothing in the mouth, holding ice packs: Migrant workers are the biggest casualty of India's worst heatwave

The theme of large-scale human exodus is one of the most prevalent and persuasive in world cinema, ubiquitous in international festivals.

Migrant women workers fall through maternity care cracks

Migrant workers are entitled to public health care services even when they are working away from home. But lack of identity cards and the...

Soaring temperatures take toll on firemen migrating to brick kilns

A first-hand account of life in a New Delhi shelter home during a heatwave

After her grandsons migrated from their home in West Bengal to work as goldsmiths in Navi Mumbai, a matriarch enjoys simple pleasures bought

Jharkhand's Barkha Kumari migrated to Punjab like many do from her Adivasi community, to earn a living.

Rising temperatures, sinking coastlines and increasing extreme weather events are major environmental factors that will force people to move

Toiling in soaring temperatures in Bengaluru and across Indian cities, informal workers are losing wages as heat stress takes its toll...

Ekata Bakshi, Anwesha Konar and Pranab Karmakar Illustration: Bhargabi Ghosh and Harshika Tripathi The 'Montages of Migration' series, by...

Arunopol Seal, Vikesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar and Anwesha Konar Video credit:  Harshika Tripathi Rajesh Ravidas migrated from Jharkhand to...

Odisha’s migrant households are seeing a gender-based split in voting preferences, with women rooting for a regional party while men pin the

An auto remodelling hub has sprouted in Rajasthan’s arid Gangapur, where mini trucks are converted into ice cream vends-on-wheels, used by m

Tune in to the story of Hemant Kalindi who managed to scale social, caste and financial barriers   In the third episode of the Montages...

The focus migrant workers received during the COVID lockdowns has  largely disappeared and political manifestos are pitifully thin on worker

Home alone after sons migrate, farmer taps solar to tackle water scarcity on her farm Pictures & Text: Tanmoy Bhaduri Sunaina Devi, 52,...

Bhasker Tripathi, journalist, talks about his reporting on farmers in a Indian village protesting against a biofuel plant

India’s construction industry employs nearly 60 million people but many lack skills to keep pace as the sector turns green Rishabh...