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Work and Worship
Hundreds of people migrate from rural West Bengal to Kolkata to meet the spike in demand for labour during its biggest celebration of the...

Tanmoy Bhaduri
Oct 7, 20245 min read


Dharavi revamp: A way of life and work to change in Mumbai's migrant hub
In the streets and warehouses of Asia’s largest slum, migrant workers who make up for a large part of the slum’s population, reflect on...

Aarefa Johari
Oct 4, 202413 min read


Expensive data disconnects migrants
Sharp increases in mobile tariffs are straining the budgets of migrant workers in cities like Bengaluru, making it harder for them to...

Amoolya Rajappa
Sep 30, 20247 min read


'Jungle is our Life': The Story of a Village Collective
India gives tribal villages rights over forest land and its produce but the laws have been poorly implemented. A union of villages in...

Roli Srivastava
Sep 27, 202412 min read


In Odisha’s Adivasi areas, farmers fish their way back home
A state-run fish farming scheme in Odisha creates livelihood opportunity in drought-hit villages, brings migrants home Abhijit Mohanty...

Abhijit Mohanty
Sep 13, 202410 min read


“The machines have taken over our work”
The livelihoods of an estimated 15 lakh farm workers in Punjab – not counting the thousands of migrant labourers in the state - are at...

Sanskriti Talwar
Sep 4, 202411 min read


'Who will till your land?'
Hostility towards migrant farm workers in Punjab villages raises livelihood and dignity concerns Arshdeep Arshi Migrant workers Sikandar...

Arshdeep Arshi
Aug 29, 20247 min read


Migrant workers head to the Valley to beat the heat
Bedmakers, construction workers and street vendors landed in Kashmir in larger numbers this year as relentless heatwaves swept across...

Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth
Aug 23, 20248 min read


Inside Delhi's Momo Capital
In the heart of Delhi, the welcoming urban village of Chirag Dilli, has given an address to countless migrants from the northeast, who...

Anuj Behal
Aug 16, 20247 min read


The invisible victims of Pune’s Porsche crash
Migrant workers in the city’s bars and pubs have become jobless following government action against places serving liquor Varsha...

Varsha Torgalkar
Aug 9, 20246 min read


Solar pumps lift salt farmers out of diesel-fuelled poverty
Agarias, the traditional salt farmers of the Little Rann of Kutch, shift to renewable energy to produce salt, breaking free from decades...

Suchak Patel
Aug 2, 20248 min read


For the love of God
Many small traders who migrated to Ayodhya decades ago are returning to their villages having lost their shops to the town’s recent...

Jigyasa Mishra
Jul 26, 20246 min read


Heirloom seeds take root, arrest migration from Madhya Pradesh village
As a shift to heirloom seeds and indigenous crops improves agricultural yields in Jhabua district, farmers are less dependent on migration..

Aishwarya Mohanty
Jul 12, 20246 min read


In a Delhi heat ward, a lonely battle for life
Unconscious, frothing in the mouth, holding ice packs: Migrant workers are the biggest casualty of India's worst heatwave

Anumeha Yadav
Jun 21, 20247 min read


Heat wilts wages, health of India workers
Toiling in soaring temperatures in Bengaluru and across Indian cities, informal workers are losing wages as heat stress takes its toll ...

Preksha Sharma, Janet Orlene, Ahmed Sikander
May 17, 20248 min read


The Drought That Spawned an Ice Cream Industry
An auto remodelling hub has sprouted in Rajasthan’s arid Gangapur, where mini trucks are converted into ice cream vends-on-wheels, used by m

Roli Srivastava
May 3, 20247 min read

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