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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


How water distress created jobs, and a migration corridor
The Maharashtra government has been offering subsidies to farmers to dig wells to help them tackle extreme water scarcity, which has led...

Roli Srivastava, Varsha Torgalkar
Mar 211 min read


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

Roli Srivastava
Mar 71 min read


Migrant workers & the data gap: the climate question
In 2020, an estimated 14 million people in the country were forced to migrate as a consequence of extreme weather events. But climate...

Nidhi jamwal and Naveen kumar manoharan
Mar 41 min read


Migrant workers and the data gap
M igrant workers contribute to nearly 10% of India’s GDP, but there is no real estimate on their exact numbers. Why is counting migrants...

Nidhi jamwal and Naveen kumar manoharan
Feb 281 min read


Should I stay or should I go?
In states like Uttarakhand, the dire impacts of climate change are equally felt by those who have to leave home, and those who find...

Namrata Raju
Feb 281 min read


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

Hepzi Anthony
Feb 171 min read


Working hours and the working class
Various industrialists have suggested that Indians should work longer hours for success. But how hard do Indians actually work? Namrata Raju

Namrata Raju
Feb 101 min read


Pomegranate blooms in the desert, creates jobs
Pomegranate farming in the past decade in water-starved Barmer has yielded gains for farmers and created a new migration corridor between...

Salim Attar and Mritunjay Kumar
Jan 311 min read


Trapped in the protection net
The Odisha government's sustained efforts to protect the vulnerable olive ridley turtles has yielded results. Now local fishermen, forced...

Rakhi Ghosh and Deekshith Pai
Jan 311 min read

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