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Reportage

25 April 2025

Watershed move: When a village shares a vital resource

A unique water conservation project based on sharing resources in a drought-prone region of eastern India has revived farms and wells, easing women’s workload and empowering them

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Roli Srivastava

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Analysis

24 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

Analysis

24 April 2025

Heat Bulletin

India pulls up its sleeves to tackle rising heat, but is it enough?

It’s April and heatwaves are already sweeping parts of India. What steps are the central and state governments taking to protect citizens from the intense heat, and are they enough?

Mansi

Mansi Bhaktwani

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68 days, 1.06 crore workers and a pandemic

Tracing the journeys of workers and that of a country five years after it set out to count them and connect them to welfare schemes

By PDAG

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Analysis

17 April 2025

From crisis to coordination: lessons from Jharkhand’s journey

One of India’s poorest states showed enterprise and initiative to bring back its workers home amid a raging pandemic

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Photo Essay

17 April 2025

‘I don’t want to remember those years’

The reappearance of smog and congestion signal thriving business and normal life in Mumbai’s massive slum Dharavi

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Analysis

16 April 2025

From Crisis to Coordination: Lessons from Jharkhand’s Journey

One of India’s poorest state showed enterprise and initiative to bring back its workers home amid a raging pandemic

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Video

17 April 2025

Lockdown Push To Migrant Tech Apps

The job crisis during the pandemic five years ago led to the creation of mobile apps connecting workers to jobs

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Mansi Bhaktwani

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Deekshith R Pai

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Analysis

11 April 2025

Urban Eats: How community kitchens serve workers on the move

For cycle rickshaw pullers and other 'footloose workers', subsidised meals provided at state run canteens are often the only wholesome meals they can afford

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Podcast

09 April 2025

From Dosas to Samosas: Food delivery apps and small businesses

Has the platform economy caused more harm than good to small businesses in the food and beverage industry?

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Analysis

09 April 2025

How Covid-19 changed India’s labour migration landscape

Preference for cities not too far from home, growing importance of children’s education and dipping bargaining power for wages, the pandemic had a lasting impact on migration decisions and patterns

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Reportage

24 February 2025

Migration Bulletin

Social security and healthcare benefits for the growing gig sector

The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that compiles migration news from across various publications. In the sixth edition, we look at the Budget 2025, the clamp down on undocumented immigrants in the US and UK and more.

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Reportage

27 January 2025

Migration Bulletin

Are Migrants Returning Home Due To Improved Economic Opportunity?

The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that captures issues related to migration that have been reported on various media platforms. In its fifth edition, we look at the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister’s report noting the slowdown in domestic migration and the gender pay gap in Southern India.

As Brick Kilns Close For Cleaner Air, A Race For Jobs

With no safety nets as brick kilns shut shop around New Delhi to meet emission norms, workers return to villages, lean on traditional networks to find new work

Esha Roy

Up Against The Wall

Moulding, firing and baking: despite harsh and exploitative work conditions, India's brick kiln workers cling to jobs in a sector that faces imminent closure

Tanmoy Bhaduri, Anumeha Yadav, Esha Roy

12 July 2024

Heirloom seeds take root, arrest migration from Madhya Pradesh village

As a shift to heirloom seeds and indigenous crops improves agricultural yields in Jhabua district, farmers are becoming less dependent on migration for work in cities in neighbouring Rajasthan and Gujarat

Aishwarya Mohanty

02 August 2024

Solar pumps lift salt farmers out of diesel-fuelled poverty

Agarias, the traditional salt farmers of the Little Rann of Kutch, shift to renewable energy to produce salt, breaking free from decades of debt

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Podcast

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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Roli Srivastava

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09 August 2024

The invisible victims of Pune’s Porsche crash

Migrant workers in the city’s bars and pubs have become jobless following government action against places serving liquor

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Varsha Torgalkar

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07 August 2024

Lost in the Landslide

Wayanad has an estimated 100,000 migrant workers, who were amongst the most impacted in the recent landslide.

Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge, Jais Jacob

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Analysis & Data

05 August 2024

The Worry About Warming Waters

Millions of people in India live near the coastline, many depend on the fisheries sector for a living, and they will be the worst hit as marine heatwaves become more frequent.

Rishabh Shrivastav

Rishabh Shrivastava, Nidhi Jamwal, Naveen Kumar Manoharan

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Analysis & Data

23 August 2024

THE CLIMATE CLEAN-UP DEBATE

Poor countries bear the unequal burden of the impact of climate change, which is at the centre of the Global North versus Global South debate, which was a rare central theme in this year’s economic survey

Rishabh Shrivastav

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5 July 2024

As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs

With no safety nets as brick kilns shut shop around New Delhi to meet emission norms, workers return to villages, lean on traditional networks to find new work

In a Delhi heat ward,
a lonely battle for life

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

Anumeha Yadav

28 June 2024

No shade, no water: The fatal flaws in India’s heat management

To protect street vendors and urban workers from the impact of rising heat, Indian cities need inclusive policies– from legally binding heat action plans, cooling centres to special funds and awareness drives

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Essay
20 June 2024

The persuasive cinema of exodus

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

Namrata Joshi / The New Indian Express

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