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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
8 hours ago1 min read


Moving Act
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...

Sanskriti Talwar and Akshar Ramuhalli
Jul 91 min read


Inside a Brutal Day with a Migrant Delivery Rider
44°C. 21 deliveries. As little as ₹20 per order. This is what it takes to deliver a lunch amidst a searing heatwave in Delhi. Prakhar...

Prakhar Dobhal and Swara Garge
Jul 71 min read


Why Melting Glaciers Are Triggering Mass Migration in the Himalayas
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast, triggering deadly floods and displacing communities Nidhi Jamwal

Nidhi Jamwal
Jul 71 min read


EVs: From the Green to the Unseen
Moving towards EVs is necessary, but what happens to those employed in traditional automotive sector? Will jobs be created or lost?...

Namrata Raju
Jun 301 min read


How Reverse Migration Revived a Pottery Village in India
In Kanthaliya, a small pottery village in Murshidabad, West Bengal, reverse migration is reviving a centuries-old craft, creating jobs,...
Subhrajit Sen
Jun 271 min read


Migrants have a much higher chance of being undercounted in the Census
T he Indian government has this month officially notified the 2027 census, ending years of delay. But low income migrant workers have...

Anuja
Jun 271 min read


The big India melt: from heat stress to the politics of shade
As heatwaves sweep across large swathes of India, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, a doctoral researcher at King’s College London discusses Heat...

Namrata Raju
Jun 161 min read


“There’s poison in the air, poison in the sun. But we have to work.”
In North Delhi, at the foot of the Bhalswa landfill, women waste pickers battle deadly heatwaves, toxic fumes, and crumbling health every...

Naila Khan and Uzair Usmani
Jun 121 min read


When illness meets India's rising heat
No doctors back home. No money for private care. For India’s poor, AIIMS Delhi is the last hope.But as they wait on pavements for cancer,...

Omair Farooq & Alishan Jafri
May 291 min read


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

Namrata Raju
May 271 min read


With Men Gone, Odisha’s Women Take the Stage to Save A Dying Tradition
Cultural troupes in Odisha villages that had gone silent after men migrated for work have now been revived by women Roli Srivastava ...

Roli Srivastava
May 231 min read


Heatwaves are breaking Delhi’s migrant workers, and their incomes
As Delhi sizzles past 45°C, thousands of migrant workers face the city’s brutal heat without rest, shade, or protection. Prakhar Dobhal...

Prakhar Dobhal and Swara Garge
May 211 min read


Unpacking just transitions
In our brand new mini-series on Just Transitions, we start by understanding what this term means Namrata Raju

Namrata Raju
Apr 301 min read


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

Roli Srivastava and Akshay Ramuhalli
Apr 301 min read


Lockdown Push To Migrant Tech Apps
The job crisis during the pandemic five years ago led to the creation of mobile apps connecting workers to jobs Mansi Bhaktwani...
Deekshith Pai and Mansi Bhaktwani
Apr 171 min read


From Dosas to Samosas: Food delivery apps and small businesses
Has the platform economy caused more harm than good to small businesses in the food and beverage industry? Namrata Raju

Namrata Raju
Apr 91 min read


Beneath the panel
A massive solar park in Tamil Nadu has fuelled migration and those left behind count losses after giving up their land for the project...

Aparna Ganesan
Apr 11 min read


Counting the invisible millions
A unique initiative to register migrant workers and connect them with social security schemes was launched in Jharkhand in 2020. Five...

Rahul Singh and Deekshith R Pai
Apr 11 min read


'Underlying causes of migrant exodus remain unchanged'
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...

Anuja
Mar 241 min read

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