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Anuj Behal and Anshul Rai Sharma
1 day ago8 min read
Out of focus
Street photographers have for decades captured memories for tourists visiting the India Gate, but the Central Vista project in New Delhi...
Hepzi Anthony
1 day ago8 min read
Fumes, disease, debt: Life in Asia’s largest dumping ground
Breathing toxic air is not a seasonal but a daily reality for residents of a sprawling slum in a Mumbai suburb located next to a massive...
Mansi Bhaktwani
3 days ago1 min read
'Mumbai is my ticket to freedom'
Vegetable seller Mamta Gupta, who migrated to Mumbai from Varanasi after marriage, shares how she found freedom to live life on her terms...
Aishwarya Tripathi and Dharmendra Rajpoot
5 days ago11 min read
From riches to rags: The making of new migrants
As the flooded river Sharda cuts aways into land and homes in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, farmers prepare to migrate for the first...
Ritwika Mitra and Deekshith R Pai
Dec 131 min read
Sinking islands, Empty houses
Thousands of people have migrated from Ghoramara in the eco-fragile Sundarbans _ the world’s largest mangrove vegetation _ as the island...
Monika Banerjee
Dec 117 min read
How babies bear the unequal burden of poor air
A new study focused on Delhi’s migrant worker hubs calls for more investment in building awareness and campaigns to check the impact of...
Maitreyee Boruah
Dec 1110 min read
The identity battle brewing in Assam's tea gardens
Centuries’ old migration to tea plantations of Assam from Jharkhand is now a roadblock in a growing demand among workers for scheduled...
Rejimon Kuttappan
Dec 611 min read
On the slave labour trail
Dutch sociologist Jan Breman’s book reveals how the bonded labor system in India, though officially abolished, persists in insidious,...
Subha J Rao
Dec 37 min read
The migrant as motivation
Tamil and Kannada cinema have in recent years captured the journeys, challenges and joys of migration. What has led filmmakers to this...
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