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Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge, Jais Jacob
Aug 7, 20241 min read
Wayanad: Lost in the Landslide
Video producers: Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge Footage: Jais Jacob Wayanad has an estimated 100,000 migrant workers, who were amongst the...


Rishabh Shrivastava, Nidhi Jamwal, Naveen Kumar Manoharan
Aug 5, 20241 min read
The Worry About Warming Waters
Millions of people in India live near the coastline, many depend on the fisheries sector for a living, and they will be the worst hit as...


Suchak Patel
Aug 2, 20248 min read
Solar pumps lift salt farmers out of diesel-fuelled poverty
Agarias, the traditional salt farmers of the Little Rann of Kutch, shift to renewable energy to produce salt, breaking free from decades...


Jigyasa Mishra
Jul 26, 20246 min read
For the love of God
Many small traders who migrated to Ayodhya decades ago are returning to their villages having lost their shops to the town’s recent...


Rishabh Shrivastava
Jul 19, 20243 min read
The 'climate cocktail' impacting worker health
More than 70 percent of the global workforce, is likely to be exposed to climate-change-related health hazards, says report Rishabh...


Aishwarya Mohanty
Jul 12, 20246 min read
Heirloom seeds take root, arrest migration from Madhya Pradesh village
As a shift to heirloom seeds and indigenous crops improves agricultural yields in Jhabua district, farmers are less dependent on migration..


Esha Roy
Jul 8, 20241 min read
The cost of going green
As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs


Esha Roy
Jul 5, 20248 min read
As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs
With no safety nets as brick kilns shut shop around New Delhi to meet emission norms, workers return to villages to find new work


Selomi Garnaik and Amruta S N
Jun 28, 20246 min read
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.


Anumeha Yadav
Jun 21, 20247 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20249 min read
Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt
Migrant women workers fall through maternity care cracks


Anumeha Yadav
Jun 14, 20241 min read
Overworked, undernourished: Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt
Migrant workers are entitled to public health care services but a lack of identity cards is causing issues.


Tanmoy Bhaduri
Jun 7, 20245 min read
Braving the heat to bake bricks
Soaring temperatures take toll on firemen migrating to brick kilns


Manohar Lal Navneet
Jun 7, 20244 min read
'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, 20243 min read
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, 20241 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20248 min read
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, 20241 min read
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...

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