Every festival, Bundelkhand's migrant workers undertake long train journeys to get home but the happiness of homecoming is shortlived as husbands and sons leave once the festivities are over, while women stay back to shoulder agricultural and care work.

While Delhi sleeps behind locked gates, hundreds of private security guards fight a silent battle against cold winters and toxic smog amid government-imposed bans on biomass burning.

Adarsh Behera, a 36-year-old mechanic from Odisha working in Sudan, was caught in the country's civil war and abducted by the Rapid Support Forces in October 2025. He returned home in December. This is his story.

India’s brick kiln industry largely employs migrant labourers, many of whom are caught in a debt trap by their employers and struggle for dignity even after their release

A devastating fire swept through a packed nightclub in Arpora, killing 25 people — mostly young migrant workers in their 20s and 30s. They were cooks, cleaners, and trainees who had left villages in Assam, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Nepal to find a better future in Goa’s booming hospitality industry.

Delhi runs on the labour of nearly a million migrant construction workers, toiling outdoors even as pollution peaks each winter. But when authorities halt building activity to curb toxic air, these workers are the first to lose their livelihoods.

An 800-kilometre journey across Jharkhand’s coal-affected districts took the idea of Just Transition directly to communities, opening conversations on life beyond coal.

Violence in Manipur has forced thousands to flee their homes. More than two years later, families continue to live in relief camps with the uncertainty of what the future holds, the struggle for daily-wage work and the emotional toll of living without a home

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.

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.

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

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. Stephin Thomas

In Gurugram, hundreds of Bengali-speaking workers, many of them Indian citizens, now live in fear after a police crackdown on “illegal Bangladeshi migrants”  Naila Khan Uzair Usmani

Waste pickers, the backbone of global recycling, are demanding recognition, income security, and a just transition as the world moves toward reuse, repair, and refill Ravleen Kaur

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

Irregular rains across North Karnataka coupled with devastating flash floods along the length of Malaprabha river is adversely affecting agriculture, forcing migration from these villages. Deekshith R Pai

Manual scavenging is banned in India. But many still enter toxic drains to keep the city from flooding. Naila Khan   Uzair Usmani