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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

Aishwarya Mohanty
Jul 311 min read


From dust to just: Indian coal and just transitions
Ca n we superimpose solutions from Western countries as we seek out these “Just Transitions” in the coal industry Namrata Raju

Namrata Raju
Jul 311 min read


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...

Aishwarya Mohanty
Jul 3115 min read


The Making of a Migrant City
From tents in the rain to teeming barracks and now cramped vertical slums, Ulhasnagar has seen generations of migrants, first from Sindh,...

Dr Agrima Thakur
Jul 319 min read


'This story was a bite away'
The culinary traditions and practices of migrants carry more than just flavour—they hold stories of survival, longing, memory, and...

Amoolya Rajappa and Akshay Ramuhalli
Jul 301 min read


Caught in climate extremes: The dilemma North Karnataka's farmers face
Irregular rains across North Karnataka coupled with devastating flash floods along the length of Malaprabha river is adversely affecting...

Deekshith Pai
Jul 301 min read


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

Sanskriti Talwar
Jul 3013 min read


From Gurgaon to Chicago, a global wake-up call on floods
More cities are flooding under heavy rains, but drainage, zoning, and warning systems lag far behind. Vaishnavi Chandrasekar Pic credit:...

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar
Jul 286 min read


Freedom’s Price: Queer Life in Indian Cities
Urban centres offer anonymity and community, yet migrants grapple with high costs, job precarity, discrimination, and isolation. Chapal...

Chapal Mehra
Jul 286 min read


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

Namrata Raju
Jul 281 min read


Carrier of culture, weapon of politics
‘Let governments rest assured that we as a people have remained beautifully unified through all these times. It is not language that has...

Shanta Gokhale
Jul 248 min read


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

Maitreyee Boruah
Jul 249 min read


No voice for migrants in Mumbai’s language debate
India’s financial capital has been a migrant magnet for decades and despite rising political tensions around the language ‘outsiders’...

Hepzi Anthony
Jul 249 min read


Telangana worker’s dead body brought home amid Israel-Iran ceasefire
Mansi Bhaktwani The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that compiles news and developments pertaining to India’s migrant workforce....

Mansi Bhaktwani
Jul 235 min read


Why Dalit Migrants Are Still Cleaning Sewers in India’s Capital
Manual scavenging is banned in India. But many still enter toxic drains to keep the city from flooding. Naila Khan Uzair Usmani

Naila Khan & Uzair Hayatt
Jul 231 min read


Bengaluru’s Khanavalis: Where Migration, Memory and Meals Come Together
Khanavalis, humble, family-run eateries serve authentic North Karnataka cuisine in Bengaluru, a metro city built by migrants Amoolya...

Amoolya Rajappa & Vandana R
Jul 231 min read


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

Anuja
Jul 2310 min read


Reader connect: From rising heat to the reality of superfast food deliveries
Founders Roli and Anuradha take up reader questions on the challenges of planning a heat series and the solutions that emerged Roli...

Roli Srivastava, Anuradha Nagaraj, Akshay Ramuhalli
Jul 181 min read


The cost of staying on the list
Migrant workers from Bihar are spending weeks' wages and sacrificing festival visits to ensure their names remain on the electoral rolls...

Umesh Kumar Ray
Jul 1810 min read


When the bulldozer comes knocking
Delhi's migrants are losing their homes to civic projects planned in areas where informal settlements are located Debayan Dutta Ribhu...

Debayan Dutta and Ribhu Chatterji
Jul 171 min read

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