Over 1,700 ghost villages now lie empty across the Himalayan state, homes locked, fields barren, and communities lost. Aishwarya Mohanty

Ca n we superimpose solutions from Western countries as we seek out these “Just Transitions” in the coal industry Namrata Raju

Labourers who travel cross-country with a promise to return often don’t make the final journey back, their bereaved families left to...

From tents in the rain to teeming barracks and now cramped vertical slums, Ulhasnagar has seen generations of migrants, first from Sindh, and now from within India, battle poor infrastructure, fragile healthcare, and institutional apathy with quiet resilience Dr Agrima Thakur Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons ULHASNAGAR, Maharashtra:  Take a walk down the myriad narrow lanes of this bustling town near Kalyan, and chances are you will still find a wizened old man telling the story

The culinary traditions and practices of migrants carry more than just flavour—they hold stories of survival, longing, memory, and identity. On this podcast, reporters reflect on tracing food memories, tasting the dishes they write about. Amoolya Rajappa Akshay Ramuhalli

Irregular rains across North Karnataka coupled with devastating flash floods along the length of Malaprabha river is adversely affecting agriculture, forcing migration from these villages. Deekshith R Pai

More than 7,000 auto-sector workers have suffered severe workplace injuries since 2016, mostly in the supply chains of India’s top...

More cities are flooding under heavy rains, but drainage, zoning, and warning systems lag far behind. Vaishnavi Chandrasekar Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons This is a summer of floods.  That’s been especially evident in the US. In the state of Texas, a combination of two tropical storms created a system that produced 10 to 18 inches of rain over the Guadalupe River basin early July, causing flash floods that took at least 131 lives. (According to one report, the river rose from

Urban centres offer anonymity and community, yet migrants grapple with high costs, job precarity, discrimination, and isolation. Chapal...

Namrata Raju Low-wage migrants play a substantial role in our economic development but struggle to access financial services

‘Let governments rest assured that we as a people have remained beautifully unified through all these times. It is not language that has ever divided us’ Shanta Gokhale Janmashtami festival celebration in Mumbai. Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons. Pic used for representational purpose only Language is culture. It is a carrier of identity, of a unique way of looking at the world. The first word a baby hears and the first lullaby that puts it to sleep is in its birth language. The

Speaking the local language is a safety net for migrant workers in a linguistically-charged metropolis, but learning it in a classroom is...

India’s financial capital has been a migrant magnet for decades and despite rising political tensions around the language ‘outsiders’ speak, ‘Mumbai is still home’, say migrants Hepzi Anthony Labour contractor Halim Khan with his wife Sridevi.  Pic credit: Hepzi Anthony MUMBAI, Maharashtra:   Labour contractor Halim Khan, 60, migrated to Mumbai from Lucknow about 25 years ago. He calls himself ‘angootha chaap’ (illiterate), but has picked up Marathi, Tamil and Kannada during

Mansi Bhaktwani The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that compiles news and developments pertaining to India’s migrant workforce. In this month's bulletin, we track the return of a migrant worker’s body from Israel, unseasonal showers washing away wages of brick kiln workers, and more. Telangana worker’s dead body brought home amid Israel-Iran ceasefire  The body of Ravinder Revalla, a migrant worker from Telangana who had passed away due to a heart attack in Israel l

Manual scavenging is banned in India. But many still enter toxic drains to keep the city from flooding. Naila Khan   Uzair Usmani

Khanavalis, humble, family-run eateries serve authentic North Karnataka cuisine in Bengaluru, a metro city built by migrants Amoolya...

The election commission has issued front-page ads in newspapers and also put out social media posts on the ongoing SIR, but many workers...

Founders Roli and Anuradha take up reader questions on the challenges of planning a heat series and the solutions that emerged Roli Srivastava Anuradha Nagaraj Akshay Ramuhalli

Migrant workers from Bihar are spending weeks' wages and sacrificing festival visits to ensure their names remain on the electoral rolls amidst the ongoing special intensive revision Umesh Kumar Ray Mukesh Paswan with his wife at his home in Akbarpur village in Nalanda. Umesh Kumar Ray/The Migration Story Nalanda, BIHAR : Mukesh Paswan was working at a rice mill in Hyderabad when his wife, Geeta Kumari, made a distress call from Akbarpur village in Bihar’s Nalanda district –

Delhi's migrants are losing their homes to civic projects planned in areas where informal settlements are located Debayan Dutta Ribhu Chatterji