No shade, no water: The fatal flaws in India’s heat management
To protect street vendors/urban workers from the impact of rising heat, Indian cities need inclusive policies.
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Anumeha Yadav
- Jun 21
- 7 min
In a Delhi heat ward, a lonely battle for life
Unconscious, frothing in the mouth, holding ice packs: Migrant workers are the biggest casualty of India's worst heatwave
Namrata Joshi
- Jun 20
- 4 min
The persuasive cinema of exodus
The theme of large-scale human exodus is one of the most prevalent and persuasive in world cinema, ubiquitous in international festivals.
Anumeha Yadav
- Jun 14
- 9 min
Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt
Migrant women workers fall through maternity care cracks
Tanmoy Bhaduri
- Jun 7
- 5 min
Braving the heat to bake bricks
Soaring temperatures take toll on firemen migrating to brick kilns
Manohar Lal Navneet
- Jun 7
- 4 min
'We work in burning kilns, but this is hotter'
A first-hand account of life in a New Delhi shelter home during a
heatwave
Anwesha Ganguly
- May 30
- 3 min
Shahida Bibi's Bangles
After her grandsons migrated from their home in West Bengal to work as goldsmiths in Navi Mumbai, a matriarch enjoys simple pleasures bought
The Migration Story
- May 30
- 1 min
Barkha's Boutique: The story of a migrant domestic help who now runs a fashion store
Jharkhand's Barkha Kumari migrated to Punjab like many do from her Adivasi community, to earn a living.
Rishabh Shrivastava
- May 24
- 4 min
The Case of Climate Refugees
Rising temperatures, sinking coastlines and increasing extreme weather events are major environmental factors that will force people to move
Preksha Sharma, Janet Orlene, Ahmed Sikander
- May 17
- 8 min
Heat Wilts Wages, Health Of India Workers
Toiling in soaring temperatures in Bengaluru and across Indian cities, informal workers are losing wages as heat stress takes its toll...
Bhargabi Ghosh and Harshika Tripathi
- May 15
- 1 min
Breaking The Migrant Stereotype, One Story At a Time
Ekata Bakshi, Anwesha Konar and Pranab Karmakar Illustration: Bhargabi Ghosh and Harshika Tripathi The 'Montages of Migration' series, by...
Harshika Tripathi
- May 15
- 1 min
‘Dignity First’ Is The Resolve Of A Migrant Worker Turned Boss
Arunopol Seal, Vikesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar and Anwesha Konar Video credit: Harshika Tripathi Rajesh Ravidas migrated from Jharkhand to...
Aishwarya Mohanty
- May 10
- 7 min
Free and Fair
Odisha’s migrant households are seeing a gender-based split in voting preferences, with women rooting for a regional party while men pin the
Roli Srivastava
- May 3
- 7 min
The Drought That Spawned an Ice Cream Industry
An auto remodelling hub has sprouted in Rajasthan’s arid Gangapur, where mini trucks are converted into ice cream vends-on-wheels, used by m
PDAG
- Apr 25
- 1 min
The Migration Route to Empowerment
Tune in to the story of Hemant Kalindi who managed to scale social, caste and financial barriers In the third episode of the Montages of...
Rajiv Khandelwal
- Apr 19
- 6 min
The Missing Millions in Manifestos
The focus migrant workers received during the COVID lockdowns has largely disappeared and political manifestos are pitifully thin on worker
Tanmoy Bhaduri
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Sunaina Devi’s Farm Revolution
Home alone after sons migrate, farmer taps solar to tackle water scarcity on her farm Pictures & Text: Tanmoy Bhaduri Sunaina Devi, 52,...
ft. Bhasker Tripathi
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Biofuel breakdown 2: A story of protest
Bhasker Tripathi, journalist, talks about his reporting on farmers in a Indian village protesting against a biofuel plant
Rishabh Shrivastava
- Apr 12
- 4 min
Net-Zero Targets and The Case of Construction Workers
India’s construction industry employs nearly 60 million people but many lack skills to keep pace as the sector turns green Rishabh...
Amoolya Rajappa
- Apr 5
- 7 min
Star-Crossed in Silicon City
Migrant workers who fled droughts and floods in their villages, bear an unequal burden in Bengaluru's intense water crisis
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