Jharkhand's Barkha Kumari migrated to Punjab like many do from her Adivasi community, to earn a living.

Ekata Bakshi, Anwesha Konar and Pranab Karmakar Illustration: Bhargabi Ghosh and Harshika Tripathi The 'Montages of Migration' series, by the Policy and Development Advisory Group (PDAG), showcases extraordinary stories of the resilience and determination of migrant workers. PDAG goes beyond the numbers in the Jharkhand Migration Survey, 2023, to tell the stories and amplify the voices of migrants who have faced adversities with courage and grace. Using graphics, maps and ill

Arunopol Seal, Vikesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar and Anwesha Konar Video credit:  Harshika Tripathi Rajesh Ravidas migrated from Jharkhand to Pune as a teenager to work in a fellow villager’s garage. Then 15, he picked up skills of denting and painting cars, eventually excelling at the job. But in the Pune garage, there were no wages paid, only food and shelter provided in return for the hard work Ravidas was doing. ​ Eight years later, he returned home. ​ Ravidas’s journey was captu

Tune in to the story of Hemant Kalindi who managed to scale social, caste and financial barriers   In the third episode of the Montages...