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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, started working on the farm as a child with her mother and then with her mother-in-law when she got married at 16. Devi’s husband would migrate to Kolkata, returning only for three months during the harvest season. She inherited 1.85 acres of land in Harpur village in Muzaffarpur in Bihar after he died  over a decade ago. With farm incomes in

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 Shrivastava Picture by : Anindito Mukherjee The buildings and construction sector accounts for 25.6 % of greenhouse gas emissions and constitutes 30 % of the total energy demand in India, a recent study has shown. These emissions and energy demand are only expected to grow as most of the buildings that will exist in India in 2050 are yet to be bui

Migrant workers who fled droughts and floods in their villages, bear an unequal burden in Bengaluru's intense water crisis