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Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty is a Special Correspondent with The Migration Story and her work amplifies voices from India’s heartlands. Her reporting spans gender, rural issues, social justice, environment, and climate vulnerabilities. Formerly with The Indian Express, her work has appeared in Mongabay, The Migration Story, Behan Box, Article-14, Frontline, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and others. She is also the recipient of the ICRC-PII Award for climate change reporting (2021), the Laadli Media Award for gender-sensitive reporting (2023 & 2025), the Sanjay Ghose Media Award for grassroots journalism (2023), and the Odisha Women in Media Award (2024). Along with this, she co-owns a permaculture farm, Routes to Roots Natural Farms, with her partner in Nimach, Madhya Pradesh.
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23 hrs ago • 1 min read

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Inside India’s Scam Economy

Snigdha Poonam, journalist and author of 'Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud that Preys on the World', unpack the social, economic, and migration stories behind India’s scam networks on this podcast

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23 hrs ago • 17 min read

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‘Waiting for flights to resume’: Gulf-bound Indian workers in limbo as war disrupts travel

Flight disruptions caused by the West Asia conflict have forced Indian workers headed there to stay back, depriving many of better prospects and pushing them into debt and uncertainty

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27 Feb 2026 • 1 min read

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From MGNREGA to VB-GRAM: What changes for women workers?

Changes in the world's biggest job guarantee scheme will have the most significant impact on rural women and might fuel distress migration amongst men, warn researchers

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27 Feb 2026 • 7 min read

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Skills without jobs: New survey flags growing mismatch for Gulf returnees in Telangana

Many migrant workers from Telangana who left as semi-skilled workers to the Gulf are returning with improved skills and experience. But the local labour markets are unable to absorb them into stable employment, finds a new survey

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26 Feb 2026 • 15 min read

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Chatbot provides first digital trace of Odisha’s migrants

A simple database created via WhatsApp aims to track thousands of workers who leave the eastern coastal state, beset with rampant distress migration, in search of employment.

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17 Feb 2026 • 15 min read

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‘I now sleep in my own house’: How a forest rights win, viral videos slowed migration from a Chhattisgarh village

Khamdodgi’s sudden online popularity brought tourists and jobs, but the shift was rooted in the rare enforcement of laws that allowed villagers to govern their forests and water bodies.

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Aishwarya Mohanty

28 Jan 2026 • 1 min read

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Why migrants are under attack — From India to the world

In the first episode of our new video series - Labour Adda - we look at migrant workers being attacked, profiled, targeted and treated as outsiders in India, and globally.

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Aishwarya Mohanty

16 Jan 2026 • 10 min read

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‘He only wanted to build a house’: Family of migrant lynched in Kerala lives with an unfinished dream

Ramnarayan Baghel, who died in a lynching attack in Kerala last month, had migrated to the state to be able to complete work on his under-construction house, which remains unfinished even as his family stares at a future without their sole breadwinnder

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Aishwarya Mohanty

12 Jan 2026 • 1 min read

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The impact of TN’s migrant worker survey freeze

Tamil Nadu recently rolled back its decision to count its migrant workforce. What are the implications of such a decision and the potential impact it may have had on the wellbeing of the industrial state's migrant workforce, if it was completed.

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Aishwarya Mohanty

26 Dec 2025 • 13 min read

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A year of missing names, migrants’ identity crisis, and resilience

Indian migrants this year experienced hostility both within and outside the country, even as they tackled rising risks from extreme weather events. But migration also continued to bring hope, celebration and dignity to countless families. A look at stories we covered in 2025.

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