Pic credit: Jyoti Yadav

Reportage

24 April 2026

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

For generations, Musahar families in Gaya Ji district have had to migrate to brick kilns and work in bondage, way below the legal minimum wage, and while the state recently rescued many such workers, they are still awaiting rehabilitation

Jyoti Yadav

Pic credit: In Old News

Analysis
24 April 2026

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

Contractual migrant workers bear the highest occupational heat burden in India, which has added to the burden of stagnating wages amid a shifting policy landscape that has stretched work hours

Aarti Khosla

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

Reportante
22 April 2026

‘Our wages were stolen and we forced a correction’

Workers – migrants from UP, Bihar – employed in the Noida Special Economic Zone and hosiery complex expressed hope that their agitation and the resultant increase in minimum wage will lead to change

Anumeha Yadav

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

22 April 2026

Unpacking the economics behind the worker protests

Minimum wage was premised on basic human dignity and an understanding that every worker has a right to basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, fuel and healthcare. But contemporary industrial wage structures have drifted far from this basic idea

Dharmendra Kumar

Namrata Raju

Podcast
22 April 2026

Rethinking welfare for workers

As extreme weather events become more frequent, migrant workers in cities like Bengaluru are among the most affected. But are existing welfare systems equipped to respond?

Amoolya Rajappa

Pic credit:Aadhya Angirish

Reportage

14 April 2026

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

The ongoing war has triggered a fuel crisis, prompting reverse migration from major cities as workers return to rain-dependent rural economies with limited savings, just ahead of dry summer months

Aishwarya Mohanty

Reportage

Gaurav Kumar

The shadow of conflict stretches from Manipur to Munirka

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

Video
14 April 2026

The war casts a shadow on this Odisha village

Around 700 people from the 750 households in Odisha’s Manikapur village work in the Gulf states. The families are now on edge, with families worried for their loved ones.

Deekshith R Pai

Pic credit: Sanskriti Talwar

Reportage

10 April 2026

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

Panic over LPG shortages due to the West Asia conflict has driven up prices of the cooking gas in informal markets, forcing many migrant workers in Haryana, Gujarat and Maharashtra to switch over to instant meals or worse still, return to their villages

Sanskriti Talwar

Pic credit: Maitreyee Boruah

Reportage

7 April 2026

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

Scores of migrant workers from across India bought exorbitant train and plane tickets to reach their home state of Assam in time for the assembly election on April 9

Maitreyee Boruah

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

Bhanumathi Kalluri

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

Swapna Gopinath

Fading stories of struggles on celluloid

Podcast
7 April 2026

India in threads: the hands that make your saris

Art explorer Simeen Kaleem discusses the past, present and future of Indian handloom and how the sari weaver’s month-long labour finally reaches your closet

Namrata Raju

Video
31 March 2026

From COVID lockdown to Gulf crisis — India’s migrant workers face another storm

The ongoing conflict in West Asia is beginning to impact energy supplies, travel, and livelihoods, whose adverse impacts are already reaching migrant workers and their families.

Aishwarya Mohanty

Pic credit: Maitreyee Boruah

Reportage

27 March 2026

Of love, longing and loneliness in an empty
Assam village

The Deka family lives all alone in their ancestral home in one of Assam’s most flood-prone regions, unable to afford land or migrate elsewhere

Maitreyee Boruah

Analysis
& Data

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

Amrita Rudra

Why Mumbai’s rain is a public health risk

Podcast
30 March 2026

Working out the economics behind the labour codes

Development economist Dr Santosh Mehrotra unpacks the implications of India’s new codes and the governance questions that arise from the attempts to reform labour laws

Reportage
30 March 2026

Unions navigate a changing plantation workforce in Kerala

As Idukki’s tea plantations witness a demographic shift from Tamil migrants to workers from states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, trade unions act as bridgemakers through mediation, negotiation and conciliation

Sai Veena S Kuttoth

Pic credit: Sai Veena S Kuttoth

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

Reportage
24 March 2026

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

From Panipat to Surat and Barauni, recent protests by workers constructing crucial petroleum oil refineries across India flag stagnant wages and precarious contracts

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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Inside India’s Scam Economy

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Why migrants are under attack — From India to the world

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Ten minutes later: Rethinking quick deliveries in India

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The impact of TN’s migrant worker survey freeze

January 12,

From the field: The stories behind the stories

December 26,

Research

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

April 24,

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

April 24,

Rethinking welfare for workers

April 22,

Unpacking the economics behind the worker protests

April 22,

‘Our wages were stolen and we forced a correction’

April 22,

COME TO GROUNDSWELL!

April 22,

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

April 14,

The war casts a shadow on this Odisha village

April 14,

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

April 10,

India in threads: the hands that make your saris

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