Pic credit: Amoolya Rajappa

Reportage

20 March 2026

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

Despite recent efforts to revive khana, a fabric woven for saree blouses only in Guledggudda town, weavers tell a long history of migration to cities in search of better-paying work

Amoolya Rajappa

Video

20 March 2026

In Telangana's withering grape farms, workers toil to sustain the harvest

On Hyderabad’s outskirts, migrant workers from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal face an uncertain future as rapid urbanisation and new industries eat into farms, shrinking their size and jobs

Pic credit: Birender Kumar Yadav

Interview

16 March 2026

‘Each brick carries the mark of a worker’s hand, but once it becomes part of a wall or a building that trace disappears’

Through his Kochi-Muziris Biennale installation, Only the Earth Knows Their Labour, artist Birender Kumar Yadav reflects on seasonal migration, precarious labour and the lives of brick kiln workers, evoking their presence through traces rather than bodies.

Sanskriti Talwar

Pic credit: Sajid Ali

Reportage

11 March 2026

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

Flight disruptions caused by the West Asia conflict have forced Indian workers headed there to stay back, depriving many of better prospects and pushing them into debt and uncertainty

Aishwarya Mohanty

13 March 2026

India’s Gulf migration model faces a new test

The migrant workforce in the Gulf has weathered many geopolitical tensions and economic downturns in the past. But the ongoing West Asia conflict could have a far greater impact with the uncertainties already beginning to reshape economies and labour markets.

S Irudaya Rajan

Rakesh Ranjan Kumar

Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons

Podcast

11 March 2026

Inside India’s scam economy

Snigdha Poonam, journalist and author of ‘Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud that Preys on the World’, unpack the social, economic, and migration stories behind India’s scam networks on this podcast

Aishwarya Mohanty

Reportage

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

Pic credit: Joymala Bagchi

Reportage

6 March 2026

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

Meagre returns from weaving and stiff competition from powerlooms have forced rural artisans to take up daily-wage work or move to the cities in search of employment

Video
6 March 2026

Street vendors feel the heat of the coal cooking ban

Delhi’s street food economy runs on coal, but what happens to the vendors and workers when authorities put restrictions on the use of this polluting fuel

Pic credit: Priyamvada Mangal

Reportage

27 February 2026

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

Inside Maharashtra’s Pench Tiger Reserve, youth trained as forest guides find new job opportunities, fresh perspectives on the wildlife living in their backyards

Priyamvada Mangal

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

Bhanumathi Kalluri

‘Voluntary’ consent and why women in protected forest areas are challenging it

Swapna Gopinath

Fading stories of struggles on celluloid

Kalpana Sharma

Labour: Indian media’s blind spot

Pic credit: Irfan Amin Malik

Reportage

27 February 2026

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

Migrants form a crucial lifeline for the booming apple industry in Kashmir with employers preferring to hire them over locals for their “dedication and punctuality”

Irfan Amin Malik

Video
27 February 2026

From MGNREGA to VB-GRAM: What changes for women workers?

Changes in the world’s biggest job guarantee scheme will have the most significant impact on rural women and might fuel distress migration amongst men, warn researchers

Aishwarya Mohanty

Pic credit: Aishwarya Mohanty

Reportage

26 February 2026

Chatbot provides first digital trace of Odisha’s migrants

A simple database created via WhatsApp aims to track thousands of workers who leave the eastern coastal state, beset with rampant distress migration, in search of employment.

Aishwarya Mohanty

Analysis
& Data

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

Amrita Rudra

Why Mumbai’s rain is a public health risk

Faraz Rupani

Freedom to stay home: Can rural communities break free from distress migration?

Reportage
27 February 2026

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

Many migrant workers from Telangana who left as semi-skilled workers to the Gulf are returning with improved skills and experience. But the local labour markets are unable to absorb them into stable employment, finds a new survey

Aishwarya Mohanty

Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons

Pic credit: Jyoti Yadav

Book Excerpt
26 February 2026

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

Journalist Jyoti Yadav’s new book ‘Faith and Fury: Covid dispatches from hinterlands’ documents the many journeys of migrant workers during the pandemic lockdown

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

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