Thousands of diamond workers have left Surat as the processing hub grapples with sanctions on Russia, falling exports, and U.S. tariffs. Bansari Kamdar A worker at a diamond workshop in Surat. File picture SURAT, Gujarat: Bapu Ganpat, a diamond polisher from Una, Gujarat, lived in Surat for more than two decades, scraping together enough to support his two children. Over the last five months, after his monthly wages were halved, rent, school fees, and daily expenses had eaten

Rain-fed farming has traditionally escaped policy and funding attention, though it engages more than 60% of India’s farmers. In...

Even as thousands of informal-sector workers struggle amid the construction slowdown in Gujarat, the government spent less than 20% of its labour cess funds for workers’ welfare last year Bansari Kamdar Young labourers wait at Gurukul naka, hoping to be hired for the day’s work as dawn breaks at the labour market in Ahmedabad. Bansari Kamdar/The Migration Story  AHMEDABAD, Gujarat: Every morning at 7 o’clock, Jitubhai Somdhi walks to the Gurukul labour centre or kadia naka, o

Data centres worldwide consume vast amounts of electricity and water, potentially straining resources. With AI’s growth, the footprint is set to balloon. Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons Last month, a UK government agency called  on residents to help mitigate the country’s water crisis.  Among the Environment Agency’s suggestions on how people could save water were expected common-sense ones such as turning off taps and fixing leaking pipes. And then the

Many young migrant workers are signing up to construct renewable energy parks in India, but wage delays and lack of amenities is forcing them to quit their jobs within months Anuradha Nagaraj An under construction solar park in Kachchh district of Gujarat. Anuradha Nagaraj/The Migration Story KHAVADA, Gujarat:  A month into his new job at the world’s largest renewable energy park in Khavada in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch, Anawar Alam was planning his escape. Hired along with 17 o

Idol makers from the Mogiya community from Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan migrate to Pune every year to sculpt idols for Ganesh Chaturthi....

Archana Kotecha, founder and CEO of The Remedy Project discusses the ways in which global supply chains are linked with abusive working...