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Reportage

04 November 2024

Inside Delhi’s Chhath circuits

Not all migrants travel back home to celebrate the biggest festival of Bihar - Chhath. Countless celebrations dot major cities like Delhi where lakhs of migrants congregate to worship the rising and the setting sun

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Picture courtesy: Praveen Jain/ThePrint

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Reportage

25 October 2024

Heat and crowded trains: The cost of cool,
clean water on a migrant journey

For migrant workers hopping onto long-distance trains, it is the consolation of being home that spurs them to overlook the challenges of journeys made with limited means, particularly access to clean and affordable drinking water

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Reportage

04 November 2024

Migration Bulletin

Migrant workers targeted in Kashmir

The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that captures issues related to migration

Reportage

No place to call home

Nidhi Jamwal

No place to call home

Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes

Esha Roy

Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes

Work and Worship

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Work and Worship

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Podcast

28 October 2024

Schooling migrant workers' children in Bundelkhand

Sneha

Sneha Richhariya

In a small town of Bundelkhand, at least 40 unregistered schools have mushroomed to cater almost exclusively to the children of migrant labourers.

Pic credit: Tanmoy Bhaduri

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Analysis & Data

25 October 2024

Can COP29 deliver for vulnerable communities hit by climate change?

Much of climate finance has gone towards mitigation, mainly measures to reduce emissions, but communities also need money to help them adapt to changing climatic conditions

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

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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

Esha Roy

Up Against The Wall

Moulding, firing and baking: despite harsh and exploitative work conditions, India's brick kiln workers cling to jobs in a sector that faces imminent closure

Tanmoy Bhaduri, Anumeha Yadav, Esha Roy

12 July 2024

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 becoming less dependent on migration for work in cities in neighbouring Rajasthan and Gujarat

Aishwarya Mohanty

02 August 2024

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 of debt

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Podcast

06 September 2024

'Climate action must be mindful of zero poverty and zero hunger goals'

Climate scientist Anjan Ray unpacks India’s clean energy goals, the impact of green energy projects on local communities and what the future holds for the country's most vulnerable.

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Roli Srivastava

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09 August 2024

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

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Varsha Torgalkar

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07 August 2024

Lost in the Landslide

Wayanad has an estimated 100,000 migrant workers, who were amongst the most impacted in the recent landslide.

Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge, Jais Jacob

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Analysis & Data

05 August 2024

The Worry About Warming Waters

Millions of people in India live near the coastline, many depend on the fisheries sector for a living, and they will be the worst hit as marine heatwaves become more frequent.

Rishabh Shrivastav

Rishabh Shrivastava, Nidhi Jamwal, Naveen Kumar Manoharan

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Analysis & Data

23 August 2024

THE CLIMATE CLEAN-UP DEBATE

Poor countries bear the unequal burden of the impact of climate change, which is at the centre of the Global North versus Global South debate, which was a rare central theme in this year’s economic survey

Rishabh Shrivastav

Rishabh Shrivastava

In Focus

The cost of going green

Esha Roy

The cost of going green

As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs

Esha Roy

As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs

Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt

Anumeha Yadav

Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt

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In Focus

'We work in burning kilns, but this is hotter'

Manohar Lal Navneet

'We work in burning kilns, but this is hotter'

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

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

28 June 2024

No shade, no water: The fatal flaws in India’s heat management

To protect street vendors and urban workers from the impact of rising heat, Indian cities need inclusive policies– from legally binding heat action plans, cooling centres to special funds and awareness drives

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Essay
20 June 2024

The persuasive cinema of exodus

The theme of large-scale human exodus is one of the most prevalent and persuasive in world cinema, ubiquitous in the international festival circuit these days.

Namrata Joshi / The New Indian Express

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Work and Worship

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Oct 75 min read

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...

Unpacking the migrant economy

Liby Johnson

Unpacking the migrant economy

‘Yesterday, my dear departed for Calcutta’

Simit Bhagat

‘Yesterday, my dear departed for Calcutta’

No shade, no water: The fatal flaws in India’s heat management

Selomi Garnaik and Amruta S N

No shade, no water: The fatal flaws in India’s heat management

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Podcast & Videos

Analysis
& Data

Where have all the migrants gone?

Himanshu Upadhyaya

Where have all the migrants gone?

Why India needs to understand Bangladesh's climate vulnerability

Rishabh Shrivastava

Why India needs to understand Bangladesh's climate vulnerability

How politics over jobs alienates migrants

Anuja

How politics over jobs alienates migrants

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In

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Barkha's Boutique: The story of a migrant domestic help who now runs a fashion store

Barkha's Boutique: The story of a migrant domestic help who now runs a fashion store

Breaking The Migrant Stereotype, One Story At a Time

Breaking The Migrant Stereotype, One Story At a Time

‘Dignity First’ Is The Resolve Of A Migrant Worker Turned Boss

‘Dignity First’ Is The Resolve Of A Migrant Worker Turned Boss

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Reportage

Inside Delhi’s Chhath circuits

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Inside Delhi’s Chhath circuits

Migrant workers targeted in Kashmir

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Migrant workers targeted in Kashmir

Heat and crowded trains: The cost of cool, clean water on a migrant journey

Oct 25

Heat and crowded trains: The cost of cool, clean water on a migrant journey

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Podcast

Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes

Oct 18

Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes

Old and Alone in Bundelkhand

Oct 14

Old and Alone in Bundelkhand

Playing god

Oct 10

Playing god

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Research

Where have all the migrants gone?

Oct 22

Where have all the migrants gone?

Why India needs to understand Bangladesh's climate vulnerability

Oct 14

Why India needs to understand Bangladesh's climate vulnerability

How politics over jobs alienates migrants

Sep 27

How politics over jobs alienates migrants

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