The yellow taxi isn’t just a vehicle—it’s a livelihood, a symbol, whose history has been carried by generations of migrant drivers in...

Urban centres offer anonymity and community, yet migrants grapple with high costs, job precarity, discrimination, and isolation. Chapal...

The reappearance of smog and congestion signal thriving business and normal life in Mumbai’s massive slum Dharavi Prashant Nakwe MUMBAI, Maharashtra:  Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, is also the epicentre of Mumbai’s unorganised economy, driven by India’s migrant labour workforce. For decades, workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra have built lives here while building the city’s economy through the more than 5,000 informal units located here

For Mumbai’s migrant workers, train journeys home are a reminder of past hardships — and the fear of their return Hepzi Anthony Prashant...

The recently concluded Kumbh mela drew not just pilgrims but toy sellers, chaat makers and sanitation workers from across Uttar Pradesh and also neighboring states who turned up in large numbers to tap the world’s largest religious gathering to boost incomes Anuj Behal Pictures by Rajneesh Verma Camel rearer Faisal chats with a fellow nomad at the Sangam Ghat, in Prayagraj, March 1, 2025. PRAYAGRAJ, Uttar Pradesh:  The Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious gathering, conc

To switch from   wood or wood scrap to alternate fuels to fire their ovens would increase production costs and impact the business of countless small bakeries in the city Mansi Bhaktwani Prashant Nakwe Warm, freshly baked pavs straight from a traditional wood-fired oven at a Mumbai bakery. MUMBAI, Maharashtra : The aroma of freshly baked bread and pav  fills the narrow, potholed lanes of Trombay, an eastern suburb of Mumbai, flanked by shops, eateries, and bakeries on either

Hundreds of people migrate from rural West Bengal to Kolkata to meet the spike in demand for labour during its biggest celebration of the year: Durga Puja. Away from their families, they are integral to the festivities - from pandal decoration to making idols and transporting them Tanmoy Bhaduri Migrant porters carry idols from workshops to puja pandals in North Kolkata. KOLKATA, West Bengal : During Durga Puja, Kolkata bursts into festivity and joy. Elaborate pandals  are se

After her grandsons migrated from their home in West Bengal to work as goldsmiths in Navi Mumbai, a matriarch enjoys simple pleasures bought

Home alone after sons migrate, farmer taps solar to tackle water scarcity on her farm Pictures & Text: Tanmoy Bhaduri Sunaina Devi, 52, started working on the farm as a child with her mother and then with her mother-in-law when she got married at 16. Devi’s husband would migrate to Kolkata, returning only for three months during the harvest season. She inherited 1.85 acres of land in Harpur village in Muzaffarpur in Bihar after he died  over a decade ago. With farm incomes in