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Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

7 hrs ago • 1 min read

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Who keeps India’s farms going?

Women constitute nearly 60% of India's farm labour and yet they are rarely-ever identified as farmers. At the heart of this challenge is land ownership. Will Maharashtra's new legislation bring this long delayed recognition to women farm workers?

Rakhi Ghosh

Rakhi Ghosh

26 Oct 2026 • 1 min read

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Why Chilika’s fishers are leaving their traditional way of life

Over the last few decades, the fishers of Chilika lake in Odisha have found it harder and harder to sustain themselves on a livelihood that has been passed down over generations. To make ends meet, many are forced to migrate out of the state to find work in industries where they don’t have much experience.

Anuja

Anuja

21 Oct 2026 • 1 min read

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How a climate event in Delhi put workers at the centrestage

At a rare convening in New Delhi last month, workers took the stage and experts took notes in a discussion on climate change.

Jyoti Yadav

Jyoti Yadav

21 Oct 2026 • 12 min read

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Back in Nepal: Bihar’s migrants who survived the Nepal floods, migrate again

Two months after the devastating flash floods in Nepal, migrant workers from Bihar who survived the disaster wonder if India or Nepal will compensate them for the losses they experienced

Maitreyee Boruah

Maitreyee Boruah

19 Oct 2026 • 13 min read

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Sacked over HIV: Why two migrant garment workers ended their lives

Bengaluru garment workers suffer in silence as employers violate labour laws preventing discrimination

Arshad Ahmed

Arshad Ahmed

12 Oct 2026 • 11 min read

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‘I feel guilty to celebrate my survival’

Over a month after Nepal’s flash floods, both survivors and the families of missing Assamese immigrant workers swing between hope and despair

Mahima Jain

Mahima Jain

07 Oct 2026 • 16 min read

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Women in rural Assam weave a new future

Recurrent floods in the Brahmaputra’s floodplains have disrupted nature-based livelihoods and forced men to migrate for work, while women have turned to non-farm work such as weaving and tailoring to earn additional incomes

Team TMS

Team TMS

05 Oct 2026 • 8 min read

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The risks and rewards of moving for work

New survey findings show how migration improves life, while recent developments around tighter immigration and natural calamities also raised concerns about who gets to move and what happens after they do

Sanskriti Talwar

Sanskriti Talwar

05 Oct 2026 • 12 min read

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Amid SIR uncertainty, Delhi’s migrant women’s journeys to stay on voter lists

In Mangolpuri’s Y-block, home to largely migrant tenants, over 80 per cent have been marked as permanently shifted in the revised voter lists despite having voted in earlier polls

Sanshey Biswas

Sanshey Biswas

30 Sep 2026 • 1 min read

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Does India have enough water?

In this video, we look at 3 water conservation success stories and the communities that made them possible. India is a water-stressed country, and with the 2026 monsoon being drier than normal, more than 50% of the country is facing drought conditions. Can community efforts scale beyond the local impact to a more national solution?

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