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Aishwarya Mohanty is an independent journalist based in Odisha, and reports on the often overlapping themes of gender, human rights, climate change and environment.
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
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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...
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Migration to equality: How Kerala has emerged as the great caste leveller
Higher wages and a more equitable work experience is drawing some of the most marginalised communities from Odisha’s Ganjam to Kerala ...
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Of caste, climate and the creation of one of India’s busiest migration corridors
For decades, tens of thousands of people from Ganjam in Odisha have flocked to Surat for work. But migration is not an option all can...
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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 less dependent on migration..
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Free and Fair
Odisha’s migrant households are seeing a gender-based split in voting preferences, with women rooting for a regional party while men pin the
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In Search of Jobs, and Brides
Repeated cyclones, sea-level rise and increasing soil salinity have disrupted farm yields and hampered the matrimonial prospects of young me
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