Analysis and Data

21 February 2025

Gaslighting: Is India’s LPG program a model for developing countries?

Access to LPG in India has expanded to almost a 100 million families living below the poverty line on the back of a state push to improve its uptake, but sustaining their use is difficult unless overall incomes rise

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

Writer Amitav Ghosh’s latest book - Wild Fictions - explores themes of climate change, migration, the forces of empire and greed of commercial developers. He speaks to The Migration Story about the growing vulnerability of migrants, the dangers of climate reductionism and where energy transition policies lack

Urvashi Sarkar

Podcast

17 February 2025

A sea of migrants on Mumbai's docks

Mumbai's fishing sector workers are former daily wage labourers, farmers and also tailors from across the country, who are drawn to this work to make a better income. But while Mumbai is good for work, it is not "home", they say

Hepzi Anthony

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Video

10 February 2025

Working hours and the working class

Various industrialists have suggested that Indians should work longer hours for success. But how hard do Indians actually work?

Namrata Raju

Reportage

04 February 2025

Germany and India join forces to bridge the green skills gap – but youth might not engage

Germany, with an ageing population, is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, mainly India. While both countries see a potential for India’s young population to contribute to their labour markets, young workers are not as enthusiastic about taking up green jobs

Roli Srivastava

Milou Dirkx

Pic Credit: Roli Srivastava

Analysis

07 February 2025

Fixing India’s heat-stressed agriculture

Agriculture is India’s biggest employer but the sector has for years been wilting under the weight of rising heat and droughts. What is the way forward?

Maitreyee Boruah

Pic Credit: Roli Srivastava

Analysis

07 February 2025

Making a case for climate action

In its latest economic survey, India spotlights expenditure on climate adaptation and why rich countries must pay up, but in its budget the country stops short of making adaptation spending a priority

Rishabh Shrivastava

Reportage

31 January 2025

Meandering in deep waters, their boats half empty

Marine fishing becomes a longer and more excruciating exercise for the fishermen off the Mumbai coast as a good catch becomes elusive owing to climate change and coastal degradation

Hepzi Anthony

Video Credit: Prashant Nakwe

Video

31 January 2025

Trapped in the protection net

The Odisha government's sustained efforts to protect the vulnerable olive ridley turtles has yielded results. Now local fishermen, forced to migrate because of long bans on fishing, want to be included in protecting the species.

Rakhi Ghosh

Deekshith Pai

Reportage

India’s heritage keepers seek new future for their children

Aarefa Johari

India’s heritage keepers seek new future for their children

Maitreyee Boruah

‘Death follows us like a shadow’

Migration to equality: How Kerala has emerged as the great caste leveller

Aishwarya Mohanty

Migration to equality: How Kerala has emerged as the great caste leveller

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Rejimon Kuttappan

On the slave labour trail

Vidya Mani

Longing, belonging

Liby Johnson

Unpacking the migrant economy

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Pic Credit: Amoolya Rajappa

Reportage

31 January 2025

In Bengaluru’s migrant colony, babies have a poor shot at vaccination

Living conditions and the burden of daily wage work prevent young migrant mothers from availing state health services, including vaccination for their children

Amoolya Rajappa

Pic credit: Representational image (Photo: iStock)

Reportage

27 January 2025

Migration Bulletin

Are Migrants Returning Home Due To Improved Economic Opportunity?

The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that captures issues related to migration that have been reported on various media platforms. In its fifth edition, we look at the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister’s report noting the slowdown in domestic migration and the gender pay gap in Southern India.

Analysis
& Data

Gaslighting: Is India’s LPG program a model for developing countries?

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

Gaslighting: Is India’s LPG program a model for developing countries?

Fixing India’s heat-stressed agriculture

Maitreyee Boruah

Fixing India’s heat-stressed agriculture

Rishabh Shrivastava

Making a case for climate action

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Reportage

5 July 2024

As Brick Kilns Close For Cleaner Air, A Race For Jobs

With no safety nets as brick kilns shut shop around New Delhi to meet emission norms, workers return to villages, lean on traditional networks to find new work