Our Vision
This migration newsroom aims to capture the journeys and challenges of India’s vast migrant workforce. It will document their ever-growing vulnerabilities owing to climate change and rising rural distress, while exploring solutions for the future. Through consistent reportage and innovative storytelling the portal aims to mainstream migrant matters and build a repository of research and data on the subject.
Founders
Roli Srivastava is a Mumbai-based journalist and founder of The Migration Story. She reports on climate change, just transition, gender and migration, focusing mainly on India’s marginalized communities. She has worked with the Thomson Reuters Foundation as Climate and Just Transition Correspondent, and Indian newspapers including The Hindu where she was Deputy Editor and The Times of India where she was Editor, Special Projects. Her stories have won her Ulrich Schwabe Media Award 2024 for Excellent Reporting on Drug Safety, the Fetisov Journalism Award (2020), Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity (2020 and 2024) and a nomination for journalist of the year in the Drum Online Media Awards (2020). She won the COP29 Cross-Border Energy Transition Reporting Fellowship (2024), Robert Bosch Stiftung Media Ambassadors Fellowship (2015), and has presented her stories at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (2019, 2021). She was on the shortlist of the Chameli Devi Jain Award (2024). She is also a journalist trainer.
Anuradha Nagaraj is an independent journalist and reports on labour rights, climate change and just transition. She has spent over two decades reporting on a range of issues across India. Anuradha started her career at The Indian Express newspaper as a reporter and rose to be the city editor of its Delhi edition. She also covered the Indian sub-continent for German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur and Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is the winner of the 2018 Ulrich Wickert International Award for reporting on child rights. A certified media trainer, she does training workshops for journalists and civil society groups. Anuradha also teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
Team
Aishwarya Mohanty is a Special Correspondent with The Migration Story and her work amplifies voices from India’s heartlands. Her reporting spans gender, rural issues, social justice, environment, and climate vulnerabilities. Formerly with The Indian Express, her work has appeared in Mongabay, The Migration Story, Behan Box, Article-14, Frontline, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and others. She is also the recipient of the ICRC-PII Award for climate change reporting (2021), the Laadli Media Award for gender-sensitive reporting (2023 & 2025), the Sanjay Ghose Media Award for grassroots journalism (2023), and the Odisha Women in Media Award (2024). Along with this, she co-owns a permaculture farm, Routes to Roots Natural Farms, with her partner in Nimach, Madhya Pradesh.
Sajid Ali is a New Delhi-based journalist and heads The Migration Story's multimedia vertical. He has over eight years of experience in multimedia storytelling and investigative reporting. He was previously Head of Multimedia at ThePrint India (2017-2025), where he led video production and flagship programmes like Cut The Clutter, Off The Cuff, Democracy Wall and many others. His frontline experiences include covering the 2020 India-China border flare-up, reporting from the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict near the Line of Control in Poonch & Uri, in-depth coverage of the Pahalgam tourist massacre, and extensive reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, culture, and business. Sajid also trains journalists on pre- and post-production and AI integration in visual storytelling.
Akshay Ramuhalli
Podcast Producer
Akshay Ramuhalli is a Bangalore-based Sound engineer and music producer who specializes in audio podcast production. With over 6 years of professional experience, Akshay learned everything by working with multiple people while not having a degree in sound or music. He has worked on recording, mixing, and making specific music for the projects required for clients like Audible, Azim Premji Foundation, Amazon, and more.
He also makes original music under the name of BTRPT.
You can check out his work on his website: https://www.akshaygr.com/
Deekshith R Pai is a freelance documentary photographer and writer, with a primary interest in the development sector focusing on stories around communities, gender, livelihoods, and ecology. He is also a film enthusiast and writes about films through various social lenses.
Mamata Salvi
Financial Specialist
Mamata Salvi is a Mumbai-based accounts and finance specialist with over two decades experience in a variety of industry sectors.
Radha Rajadhyaksha is a Mumbai-based journalist, who, in the course of her career, has headed several editing teams at The Times of India and its allied publications. She has written on a range of subjects from cinema and music to politics, human rights, civic and consumer issues and law. After quitting TOI as Senior Editor, she wrote a cinema column for The Hindu newspaper and edited several books, among them Kamu Iyer’s book on colonial architecture called ‘Boombay’, American academic Jayson Beaster Jones’ ‘Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song’ and ‘Multiciplities’, a book on Mumbai urban heritage commissioned by MMRDA. Besides writing and editing, cinema is her passion—she has assisted acclaimed film-maker Govind Nihalani and has a diploma in screenwriting from Whistling Woods, Mumbai.
Subuhi Jiwani
Subuhi Jiwani has worked as a journalist, editor and researcher with the print, television and digital media in Mumbai for more than 15 years. Over the years, she has covered various topics, from arts and culture, gender and sexuality, and Mumbai's history to migration, agriculture and climate change. She has contributed text and video stories to publications like People's Archive of Rural India, Scroll, The Wire, Sahapedia, ART India magazine, DNA and TimeOut Mumbai, and done research for the nonfiction TV show Satyamev Jayate. She has also authored books for children (including one on India's internal migrants), and shot, edited and directed documentaries, most recently with the support of a fellowship from the Earth Journalism Network. Some of her work can be found here: https://linktr.ee/subuhijiwani
Contributors
Amoolya Rajappa is a Bengaluru-based independent journalist and reports on labour, internal migration, climate change and displacement in India.
Anuja, who goes by one name, is an independent journalist based in Delhi. She has reported extensively on Indian elections, political developments, parliamentary law making, informal economy, labour, gender and migration. Some of her work can be found here: https://thisisanuja.contently.com/
Namrata Raju
Namrata Raju is an independent labour and public policy researcher. Most recently, she was the Acting Head of Programme, India Director and Head of Research at Equidem, an international labour rights organisation. Over her four years at Equidem, Namrata worked with the two other members of the senior management team to build up the organisation from a small start-up into an internationally known labour rights non-profit of considerable repute. Of her work, the most known published research is the two-year investigation she led at Equidem into the exploitation of migrant workers at the FIFA-2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar. Namrata also worked closely with a small coalition of rights organisations to develop the first concerted labour and migrant rights campaign to be held on the Arab Gulf in contemporary history. With fifteen years of research experience, Namrata has worked on a range of labour migration and general labour issues, including but not limited to, recruitment; remittances; human trafficking; the future of work; informality; post-conflict livelihoods; and financial inclusion. Namrata also set up the first in-house consumer research unit in banking in the Gulf state of Oman (Bank Dhofar), the country of her residence for almost two decades. She has worked closely with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and worked towards the establishment of an internal Labour Migration Unit with the ILO-Country Office, Sri Lanka and the Maldives when she was a summer fellow at Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Programme (WAPP) in 2017, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights the same year. Namrata has been a research advisor across an array of sectors in the MENA region, including with various government departments in the GCC and banking and financial institutions. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University (2018), Masters of Economics from University of Warwick, UK (2008), and a Bachelors of Economics from Stella Maris College, India (2006).
Vaishnavi Chandrasekhar
Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar is an environment and science journalist based in Mumbai, India. She has worked across print, magazine, and online media for over two decades, including at the Christian Science Monitor and The Times of India. Her work has also appeared in Science, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, and other publications.
Rishabh Shrivastava is a researcher and writer working on issues of law, policy and development
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