Working up to 12 hours a day for meagre wages, labourers from Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh operate looms in Bengaluru. But behind every metre of fabric lies a story of exploitation — unsafe working conditions, long shifts, and lives spent in debt and silence. Miriam Rachel Mathew Karuna Sarasuwathi Kumarappan Grishma Mate Lavanya M Nandi Mugdha Mathur Deekshith R Pai

Shubham Sabar was working at  a construction site in Bengaluru when he learned he had cracked NEET exam. As he prepares to join the medical college in Odisha, the 19-year-old's family celebrates, but also worries about the years ahead without his income Rakhi Ghosh

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

Over 200 factories in Khayala in West Delhi have shut and about 15,000 migrant workers have lost work following allegations of them being illegal Bangaldeshi migrants and Rohingyas. Omair Farooq Vipul Kumar

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...

In Gurugram, hundreds of Bengali-speaking workers, many of them Indian citizens, now live in fear after a police crackdown on “illegal...

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

Waste pickers, the backbone of global recycling, are demanding recognition, income security, and a just transition as the world moves...

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

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

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

Irregular rains across North Karnataka coupled with devastating flash floods along the length of Malaprabha river is adversely affecting...

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

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...

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

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

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...