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

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

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

Reportage

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

Pic credit: Gaurav Kumar

Reportage

27 March 2026

The shadow of conflict stretches from Manipur to Munirka

Women from strife-torn Manipur migrated to New Delhi’s Munirka, a hub for people from the North-East, but found insecure jobs, hardship and discrimination

Gaurav Kumar

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

Pic credit: Anumeha Yadav

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

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

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

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?

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

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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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

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