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Freedom’s Price: Queer Life in Indian Cities
Urban centres offer anonymity and community, yet migrants grapple with high costs, job precarity, discrimination, and isolation. Chapal...

Chapal Mehra
Jul 286 min read


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

Namrata Raju
Jul 281 min read


Carrier of culture, weapon of politics
‘Let governments rest assured that we as a people have remained beautifully unified through all these times. It is not language that has...

Shanta Gokhale
Jul 248 min read


Kannada gottu: Belonging in Bengaluru
Speaking the local language is a safety net for migrant workers in a linguistically-charged metropolis, but learning it in a classroom is...

Maitreyee Boruah
Jul 249 min read


No voice for migrants in Mumbai’s language debate
India’s financial capital has been a migrant magnet for decades and despite rising political tensions around the language ‘outsiders’...

Hepzi Anthony
Jul 249 min read


Telangana worker’s dead body brought home amid Israel-Iran ceasefire
Mansi Bhaktwani The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that compiles news and developments pertaining to India’s migrant workforce....

Mansi Bhaktwani
Jul 235 min read


Why Dalit Migrants Are Still Cleaning Sewers in India’s Capital
Manual scavenging is banned in India. But many still enter toxic drains to keep the city from flooding. Naila Khan Uzair Usmani

Naila Khan & Uzair Hayatt
Jul 231 min read


Bengaluru’s Khanavalis: Where Migration, Memory and Meals Come Together
Khanavalis, humble, family-run eateries serve authentic North Karnataka cuisine in Bengaluru, a metro city built by migrants Amoolya...

Amoolya Rajappa & Vandana R
Jul 231 min read


Missing the SIR Memo
The election commission has issued front-page ads in newspapers and also put out social media posts on the ongoing SIR, but many workers...

Anuja
Jul 2310 min read


Reader connect: From rising heat to the reality of superfast food deliveries
Founders Roli and Anuradha take up reader questions on the challenges of planning a heat series and the solutions that emerged Roli...

Roli Srivastava, Anuradha Nagaraj, Akshay Ramuhalli
Jul 181 min read


The cost of staying on the list
Migrant workers from Bihar are spending weeks' wages and sacrificing festival visits to ensure their names remain on the electoral rolls...

Umesh Kumar Ray
Jul 1810 min read


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
Jul 171 min read


Hanging by a thread: Nimisha Priya’s case spotlights plight of Indian migrants jailed overseas
Over 10,000 Indians are currently in foreign prisons, over 60% of them in Gulf countries. India has helplines and welfare funds but...

Rejimon Kuttappan
Jul 176 min read


The burden of summer in Asia’s largest wholesale market
Many felt that Delhi’s heatwave this year was not so intense but the workers in the wholesale vegetable and fruit market - Azadpur Mandi...

Sanskriti Talwar
Jul 1110 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


‘We are very much Indian citizens’
Bengali-speaking migrants, mostly Muslims, were rounded up by the Mumbai police, flown cross-country and forced into Bangladesh – even...

Neha Banka
Jul 912 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


How recurring floods fuel migration in Assam
Indigenous communities like the Misings, living near the river banks for centuries, are particularly vulnerable. Sanskrita Bharadwaj...

Sanskrita Bharadwaj
Jul 77 min read


Flooding Memories
For Assamese migrants in Bengaluru, trauma caused by floods is an annual ritual. Maitreyee Boruah Koyes Ahmed Laskar from Assam's...

Maitreyee Boruah
Jul 79 min read

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