Pic credit: Sara Abraham

Reportage
30 June 2026

At Chennai Central station, workers of seafood factory count ammonia leak losses

The rapidly growing Indian seafood processing industry depends on migrant workers to cut, clean, freeze and package fish. But the recent ammonia leak in a Tamil Nadu plant exposes the rampant disregard for worker safety, many of whom are women and adolescents

Sara Abraham

Pic credit: Mahmodul Hassan

Reportage
30 June 2026

A drought-prone Vidarbha village taps forest,
arrests migration

For decades, migration was the only escape from acute water crisis for the Korku tribal community of Payvihir village. Through community-based governance and prudent use of government schemes , the village has now restored forest-based livelihoods and curbed migration almost entirely

Mahmodul Hassan

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

Podcast
30 June 2026

‘I now send money home’

Trained in their hometown at a government-run skill development programme for rural youth, Kamalpreet Kaur and Priyanka left their homes in Punjab and travelled to the outskirts of Delhi to work in e-commerce warehouses. It was the first time either had left home for a salaried job. What followed was an adjustment not just to work, but to an entirely new world. This is their story.

Sanskriti Talwar

Akshay Ramuhalli

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Reportage
30 June 2026

Migration Bulletin: When migration meets heat
and politics

Extreme weather, labour exploitation, political rhetoric and new research underscore the changing realities of migration this month.

Jasmeh Kaur

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

Video
26 June 2026

How can storytelling build a more nuanced narrative
on migration?

Stories of migration are often complex and require a sensitive, humane approach. Similarly, it requires nuanced storytelling while bringing out these stories for the public.

InOldNews

Pic credit: A still from the film ‘Shape of Momo’

Essay
25 June 2026

Shape of Momo: Migration, memory, and the myth of homecoming

In her latest film, filmmaker Tribeny Rai crafts a tender, yet insightful exploration of migration, womanhood, and belonging.

Reportage

Aadhya Angirish

Migration Bulletin: New reforms, old prejudices

Nimish Sawant

Oral histories, pictures chronicle Kerala nurses’ forgotten care work in post-war Germany

Ayush Krishna Tripathi

‘Raining fire’: Untimely heat forces early migration from Uttar Pradesh

Aishwarya Mohanty

In rural Rajasthan, women wait for work and wage

Aadhya Angirish

Migration Bulletin: Crowded platforms, silent factories

Team TMS

The migrant verses of ‘School Chalein Hum’

Aishwarya Mohanty

When the salt turns brown: Freak rains batter livelihoods in India’s Little Rann of Kutch

Arshdeep Arshi

Deported Indians take ‘donkey’ route agents to court over failed American Dream

Jyoti Yadav

The inheritance of debt: Bihar’s Musahars still marry, give birth in bondage

Anumeha Yadav

‘Our wages were stolen and we forced a correction’

Aishwarya Mohanty

India’s LPG crunch sends migrants packing to uncertain future back home

Sanskriti Talwar

‘We are facing the war’s consequences’: Workers in global giants’ India warehouses struggle for food as LPG prices soar

Maitreyee Boruah

Trains, buses and a tomtom: The long journey back home for Assam migrants to vote in the assembly election

Sai Veena S Kuttoth

Unions navigate a changing plantation workforce in Kerala

Maitreyee Boruah

Of love, longing and loneliness in an empty Assam village

Gaurav Kumar

The shadow of conflict stretches from Manipur to Munirka

Anumeha Yadav

The anatomy of a protest: Why workers across refineries in India are striking work?

Amoolya Rajappa

‘We can’t blame anyone who migrates’: North Karnataka’s khana weavers speak of its glorious past and difficult present

Aishwarya Mohanty

‘Waiting for flights to resume’: Gulf-bound Indian workers in limbo as war disrupts travel

Joymala Bagchi

‘I’m an artist, but being a labourer is my destiny’: Decline in tant handlooms forces West Bengal’s weavers to migrate for work

Irfan Amin Malik

‘Backbone of operations’: How migrants keep South Asia’s largest apple cold storage running

Aishwarya Mohanty

Skills without jobs: New survey flags growing mismatch for Gulf returnees in Telangana

Priyamvada Mangal

In the ‘Land of Mowgli,’ women find rare entry into ecotourism jobs

Aishwarya Mohanty

Chatbot provides first digital trace of Odisha’s migrants

Aishwarya Mohanty

‘I now sleep in my own house’: How a forest rights win, viral videos slowed migration from a Chhattisgarh village

Samragnee Chakraborty

For some, Bengaluru’s traffic is a source of work

Anuj Behal

Why a dying port town is still a migrant destination

Aishwarya Mohanty

‘He only wanted to build a house’: Family of migrant lynched in Kerala lives with an unfinished dream

Kavita Chandran

Beyond work permits: Singapore scales support for its migrant workforce

Team TMS

5 people who brought cheer in 2025

Aishwarya Mohanty

A year of missing names, migrants’ identity crisis, and resilience

Mir Zuhaib Nissar

Selling idli in the Valley: An entrepreneur bridges tastes and cultures

Aishwarya Mohanty

‘We don’t feel the need to migrate’: A village tackles an invasive species, helps people stay home

Niyati Shah

One nation, fragmented rations: Migration and food (in)security in Bengaluru

Tauseef Ahmad

Road to nowhere: J&K highway closures bring migrant and farmer incomes to a halt

Shobha Surin

Loss of culture weighs heavy on Odisha’s migrant women

Prasanth Shanmugasundaram

Rising dengue, malaria cases reveal uncounted migrants in Tamil Nadu

Roli Srivastava

‘Missed opportunity’: Why a polluted Indian town awaits a thermal plant’s revival

Nidhi jamwal

‘We will develop our forest villages’: Adivasis in Odisha’s forests say no to relocation and forced migration

Ravleen Kaur

Killing fish, choking livelihoods: The scourge of plastic

Rosey Mukherjee

‘Karam reminds us of who we are’: A festival helps Bengaluru’s Adivasi migrants feel at home

Hepzi Anthony

Once ‘Manchester of India’, Bhiwandi’s textile mills lose their thread

Shaba Manzoor

How Makhana farmers split their time between muddy ponds & the city

Bansari Kamdar

Migrants return home as Diamond City loses lustre

Bansari Kamdar

Rains, recession, automation lead to job drought at Ahmedabad’s labour nakas

Anuradha Nagaraj

Not so clean: Why workers are leaving India’s green energy projects

Purusottam Thakur

In Odisha’s poorest homes, migrant incomes build a new future

Sanskriti Talwar

Crushed fingers, delayed aid: Invisible injuries in India’s auto sector

Chapal Mehra

Freedom’s price: Queer life in Indian cities

Maitreyee Boruah

Kannada gottu: Belonging in Bengaluru

Hepzi Anthony

No voice for migrants in Mumbai’s language debate

Mansi Bhaktwani

Telangana worker’s dead body brought home amid Israel-Iran ceasefire

Umesh Kumar Ray

The cost of staying on the list

Sanskriti Talwar

The burden of summer in Asia’s largest wholesale market

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

How recurring floods fuel migration in Assam

Maitreyee Boruah

Flooding memories

Aishwarya Mohanty

‘Our kitchens are never empty’: Sun-dried vegetables save the dry days in Banswara

Mahmodul Hassan

Displaced and disregarded: The plight of Assam’s erosion victims

Sapna Gopal

Boom or burden? Landour’s tourist rush tests the limits of a hill town

Mansi Bhaktwani

Chennai corporation launches AC lounges for gig workers

Khursheed Ahmad Shah

The vanishing mulberry trees of Kashmir

Anuj Behal

Pedalling through heatwaves in India’s bicycle capital

Laasya Shekhar

In furnace-like factories, the struggle for water and wage

Mansi Bhaktwani

Roadside mechanics seek skills to shift gears to EV

Hepzi Anthony

In a 10×12 Mumbai tenement, the cost of staying cool

Shekhar Paigude

‘Now my family is complete’: A dairy in arid Marathwada brings migrants home

Abhijeet Gurjar

From Palghar to a Pakistan prison: How warming waters are trapping fishermen

Roli Srivastava

Putting out forest fires with music, drums and a dash of devotion

Amoolya Rajappa

Sweating in silence: The invisible burden of heat at home

Tauseef Ahmad

‘It is like living in a nightmare that never ends’: Lost near the LoC

Anuj Behal

Chandigarh’s unplanned shadow

Roli Srivastava

Watershed move: When a village shares a vital resource

Birendra Singh

’I have stopped migrating since my brother died’

Almaas Masood

Digital India’s unseen divide

Tauseef Ahmad

Migrants serve up Eid sweets in Kashmir

Mansi Bhaktwani

Bihar govt launches app to register migrant workers

Maitreyee Boruah

‘I want to study’: The pandemic shadow on schooling lifts for some children

Zoya Hussain

A grieving father’s resolve to protect Gulf job aspirants

Manthati Sai Kiran

Pollution curbs hit work prospects of daily wagers in Delhi-NCR

Anuj Behal

The merchants of Kumbh

Mahima Jain

Amid deportations, An Indian state offers lessons in safe migration

Mansi Bhaktwani

Social security and healthcare benefits for the growing gig sector

Mansi Bhaktwani

At a crossroad, a green signal for learning

Milou Dirkx

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

Amoolya Rajappa

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

Hepzi Anthony

Meandering in deep waters, their boats half empty

Aarefa Johari

India’s heritage keepers seek new future for their children

Maitreyee Boruah

‘Death follows us like a shadow’

Aishwarya Mohanty

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

Rakhi Ghosh

The sea out of bounds, Odisha fisherfolk swim in unfamiliar waters

Sonu Pandey

Love and longing at metro rail construction sites

Esha Roy

In migration-prone Uttarakhand, a fresh crop of women leaders

Mansi Bhaktwani

‘Climate justice lens is key to planning cities better’

Shreehari Paliath

Caste on my plate

Aishwarya Mohanty

Of caste, climate and the creation of one of India’s busiest migration corridors

Anuj Behal

Out of focus

Hepzi Anthony

Fumes, disease, debt: Life in Asia’s largest dumping ground

Aishwarya Tripathi

From riches to rags: The making of new migrants

Subha J Rao

The migrant as motivation

Mansi Bhaktwani

Our daily bread: Rising pollution casts a shadow on Mumbai’s bakers

Roli Srivastava

Millionaire village: How forest ownership rights reshaped the fortunes of a tribal village

Anuja

Inside Delhi’s chhath circuits

Mansi Bhaktwani

Migrant workers targeted in Kashmir

Neetu Singh

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

Nidhi jamwal

No place to call home

Esha Roy

Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Work and worship

Aarefa Johari

Dharavi revamp: A way of life and work to change in Mumbai’s migrant hub

Amoolya Rajappa

Expensive data disconnects migrants

Roli Srivastava

‘Jungle is our life’: The story of a village collective

Abhijit Mohanty

In Odisha’s Adivasi areas, farmers fish their way back home

Sanskriti Talwar

“The machines have taken over our work”

Arshdeep Arshi

‘Who will till your land?’

Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth

Migrant workers head to the Valley to beat the heat

Anuj Behal

Inside Delhi’s Momo Capital

Varsha Torgalkar

The invisible victims of Pune’s Porsche crash

Suchak Patel

Solar pumps lift salt farmers out of diesel-fuelled poverty

Jigyasa Mishra

For the love of God

Aishwarya Mohanty

Heirloom seeds take root, arrest migration from Madhya Pradesh village

Anumeha Yadav

In a Delhi heat ward, a lonely battle for life

Preksha Sharma

Heat wilts wages, health of India workers

Roli Srivastava

The drought that spawned an ice cream industry

Pic credit: Tribeny Rai

Interview
25 June 2026

‘Every migrant carries a deeply human story’

Tribeny Rai, director of the ‘Shape of Momo’ that released last month to rave reviews, reflects on return-migration, the search for belonging, and complex womanhood.

Pic credit: Aishwarya Mohanty

Reportage
23 June 2026

The last bus home: Beyond the heat advisory

A bus service in Udaipur district and its villages has cut migration to other states, offering many villagers the luxury of returning home every evening. But to catch the last bus home, they must work through the peak heat hours to protect their daily wages, even as the district’s heat advisories ask people to stay indoors.

Aishwarya Mohanty

Pic credit: Balwantbhai Rajput

Analysis
19 June 2026

Who suffers the most when temperatures in the city rise?

Who suffers the most when temperatures
in the city rise?

Rising temperatures affect everyone, but the inability to cool their bodies due to lack of electricity or inadequate water supply impacts informal migrant women workers more, exacerbated by poor housing, the double exposure to heat at home and low incomes

Nupur Joshi

Isha Gupta

Beyond jobs: What it takes to keep young, rural women in formal employment

Rakhi Sehgal

The losses workers are counting after Noida protests

Dharmendra Kumar

Unpacking the economics behind the worker protests

S Irudaya Rajan

India’s Gulf migration model faces a new test

Bhanumathi Kalluri

In Karnataka’s mining affected areas, women fear reversal of rural employment guarantee gains

Vishaka Warrier

A circular loop: Rural-urban-rural migration in a north Karnataka district

Soha Moitra

How Musahar women in Varanasi brick kilns are reclaiming the right to breastfeed

Shanta Gokhale

Carrier of culture, weapon of politics

Renu Desai

The overlooked housing crisis of migrant workers

Geeta Ramani

The Homecoming

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

Video
19 June 2026

How migrants power the jaggery mills of Maharashtra

Maharashtra has hundreds of jaggery processing mills across the states, from co-operative units to private entities. These mills have become a seasonal livelihood source for thousands of migrant workers from districts of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

Pic credit: Sanskriti Talwar

Reportage
12 June 2026

‘What’s the benefit of this raise’, ask workers hit by war-fuelled inflation

A workers’ agitation in Noida in April pushed the state government to raise minimum wages, but migrants are still struggling — with rent hikes, a rise in LPG prices and inflated daily expenses

Sanskriti Talwar

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

Podcast
12 June 2026

In sweltering factories, women making clothes confront health risks

From ‘voluntary dehydration’ to avoid restroom restrictions to chronic heat exhaustion, women inside India’s garment factories are navigating an impossible choice between their own health and meeting relentless production targets.

Sandhya Soman

Analysis
& Data

Nupur Joshi

Who suffers the most when temperatures in the city rise?

Aarti Khosla

The heat nobody counted: Why Noida protests were not ‘just’ a wages story

Jyoti Yadav

‘The state may not have spared a thought for the migrants but villagers did’

Lata Biswal

Cyclone that climbed the hills: Titli’s unseen footprint in Odisha

Sujit Kumar Mishra

Beyond the grandeur: Migrant workers’ struggles in the shadow of India Gate

Bhargavi S Rao

A resource-rich state that’s poor for its people

Satwiki Adla

The women who keep old Podampetta alive

Subuhi Jiwani

The science and spirituality of water

Amoolya Rajappa

Under the neon lights, the hidden risks for workers

Swati Surampally

The Missing Link: Why India’s Climate and Migration Policies Keep Talking Past Each Other

Pic credit: Swati Thapa

Reportage
8 June 2026

In airless rooms,
the weak fight of Delhi’s poorest against TB

Lack of sunlight, poor ventilation, overcrowding and overheating in the capital’s informal settlements leave migrant workers vulnerable to the disease and make a full recovery challenging

Pic credit: Roli Srivastava

8 June 2026

Beyond jobs: What it takes to keep young, rural women in formal employment

Rural women’s labour force participation has improved on the back of skilling programmes, but the numbers fail to reflect factors such as fear of the unfamiliar, safety and family concerns that determine how long they stay in these jobs

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

29 May 2026

The losses workers are counting after Noida protests

In the aftermath of the protests for living wages, those named in police FIRs find themselves without jobs amid rising legal costs and an uncertain future

Aishwarya Mohanty

Chatbot provides first digital trace of Odisha’s migrants

Purusottam Thakur

In Odisha’s poorest homes, migrant incomes build a new future

Aishwarya Mohanty

Dying far from home: Agonising wait for Odisha migrant workers’ families

Pic credit: Aishwarya Mohanty

Reportage
29 May 2026

'It feels like sitting on a hot frying pan': Do Heat Action Plans pass the labour test?

Heat Action Plans across Indian states and districts are increasingly introducing innovative measures to tackle the growing impacts of extreme heat. While there have been a few labour-friendly inclusions in city plans to mitigate heat impact, poor regulation worries campaigners

Aishwarya Mohanty

Pic credit: Ayush Krishna Tripathi

Video
29 May 2026

Missing narratives: The women Gulf migrants from Kerala

Migration of women workers from the Malabar region of Kerala tells a tale of extreme hardships and lack of support systems. Yet, these stories do not find space in the larger narrative of Gulf migration from Kerala.

Pic credit: Seerat-un-Nisa

Reportage
29 May 2026

The women reshaping how some Kashmiri villages dress and dream

Tailoring shops and parlours, run by migrant women, have brought financial independence to them, and created spaces where local women can finally ask for what they want

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Fire in the Belly: Poetry as Political Memory

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Rethinking welfare for workers

April 22,

India in threads: the hands that make your saris

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Working out the economics behind the labour codes

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Inside India’s Scam Economy

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A drought-prone Vidarbha village taps forest, arrests migration

June 30,

‘I now send money home’

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Migration Bulletin: When migration meets heat and politics

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How can storytelling build a more nuanced narrative on migration?

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Shape of Momo: Migration, memory, and the myth of homecoming

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‘Every migrant carries a deeply human story’

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The last bus home: Beyond the heat advisory

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How migrants power the jaggery mills of Maharashtra

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Who suffers the most when temperatures in the city rise?

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