South Asians form a bulk of Saudi Arabia's low-wage workforce and any news around the country's labour norms are tracked keenly, including the recent fake news around the employer-tied visa sponsorship of workers . Namrata Raju

At a Mumbai convening, campaigners speak about the many welfare schemes available for migrants that exist mostly on paper, as accessing them is extremely difficult due to lack of awareness and cumbersome documentation. Hepzi Anthony

Journalist-writer Basharat Peer's op-ed in New York Times in 2020 inspired the film Homebound, which is now India's official entry to the Oscars. On this podcast he talks about his connection with the story and the families of the two friends, now immortalised on the big screen Roli Srivastava

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

The ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) drive in Bihar has sparked a debate on the process and its impact on voter registration. In...

The continued suffering of migrants owing to extractive work practices and discriminatory legal and policy regimes in the Gulf explains...

The culinary traditions and practices of migrants carry more than just flavour—they hold stories of survival, longing, memory, and...

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

Founders Roli and Anuradha take up reader questions on the challenges of planning a heat series and the solutions that emerged Roli...

In a time of shortened attention spans, five years after the pandemic, a play  Hunkaro  and its makers want you to listen to the stories...

T he Indian government has this month officially notified the 2027 census, ending years of delay. But low income migrant workers have...

As  heatwaves sweep across large swathes of India, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, a doctoral researcher at King’s College London discusses Heat...

Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit's debut book 'The Many Lives of Syeda X' follows the eponymous protagonist, one among the countless...

How equipped are rural communities to understand if the deals being offered to them by clean energy project developers are good or...

Has the platform economy caused more harm than good to small businesses in the food and beverage industry? Namrata Raju

Five years after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to control the spread of Covid-19, which led to one of the largest exodus by migrant...

India's rural jobs guarantee scheme created jobs for thousands of men and women who left cities during the lockdown, and continues to...

In states like Uttarakhand, the dire impacts of climate change are equally  felt by those who have to leave home, and those who find...

Mumbai's fishing sector workers are former daily wage labourers, farmers and also tailors from across the country, who are drawn to this...

One of Mumbai's oldest inhabitants, the Koli community, no longer wants their children to inherit the fishing trade, creating a vacuum...