About | The Migration Story

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This migration newsroom aims to capture the journeys and challenges of India’s vast internal 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

Founder

Roli Srivastava is a Mumbai-based journalist and reports on just transition, gender, migration and inclusive economies, focusing mainly on India’s marginalized communities. She has worked with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she was Climate and Just Transition Correspondent, India, and major Indian newspapers including The Hindu where she was Deputy Editor and The Times of India where she was Editor, Special Projects. She has won the Fetisov Journalism Award and the Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity for her investigation on a health scandal in rural India robbing women of their wombs. She undertakes training workshops for journalists.

Anuradha Nagaraj

Founder

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.

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Radha Rajadhyaksha

Editor

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.

Vipul Kumar

Illustrator

Vipul Kumar is a Bangalore-based visual designer, illustrator, and graphic novels enthusiast. His design practice is inspired by everyday life, and his research interests include art as activism, with a focus on the power of art in transforming political consciousness and discourse. Vipul also works as a freelance illustrator, primarily for social impact organizations and independent researchers. Outside of work, you can find him exploring street food, making zines, or playing frisbee.

Deekshith Pai

Writer & Photographer

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.

P Anima

Journalist

P Anima is a Delhi-based journalist who writes on climate change, energy transition, gender inequality and archaeology

Mansi Bhaktwani

Newsroom Intern

Mansi Bhaktwani is a Mumbai-based journalist with a post-graduate degree in journalism from St Pauls Institute of Communication Education. She works on both text and visual stories. She enjoys painting and likes learning new languages.

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