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Menaka Rao
Nov 8, 20248 min read
In recovery, away from home
A sanatorium in Goa becomes a refuge for migrant workers recuperating from tuberculosis Menaka Rao Margao TB Hospital in Goa. Menaka...


Anuja
Nov 5, 202410 min read
Inside Delhi’s Chhath circuits
Not all migrants travel back home to celebrate the biggest festival of Bihar - Chhath. Countless celebrations dot major cities like Delhi...


Mansi Bhaktwani
Nov 5, 20245 min read
Migrant workers targeted in Kashmir
The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that captures issues related to migration that have been reported on various media...

Ishita Dey and Neetu Singh
Oct 25, 20249 min read
Heat and crowded trains: The cost of cool, clean water on a migrant journey
For migrant workers hopping onto long-distance trains, it is the consolation of being home that spurs them to overlook the challenges of...


Nidhi Jamwal
Oct 22, 20249 min read
No place to call home
Repeated floods in north Bihar have fuelled migration of men, and displaced their families repeatedly as swelling rivers swallow land...

Esha Roy
Oct 18, 202416 min read
Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes
Nagarik Sahayta Kendras, a collaboration between civil society organisations and the government, were launched to help villagers get jobs...


Tanmoy Bhaduri
Oct 7, 20245 min read
Work and Worship
Hundreds of people migrate from rural West Bengal to Kolkata to meet the spike in demand for labour during its biggest celebration of the...


Aarefa Johari
Oct 4, 202413 min read
Dharavi revamp: A way of life and work to change in Mumbai's migrant hub
In the streets and warehouses of Asia’s largest slum, migrant workers who make up for a large part of the slum’s population, reflect on...


Amoolya Rajappa
Sep 30, 20247 min read
Expensive data disconnects migrants
Sharp increases in mobile tariffs are straining the budgets of migrant workers in cities like Bengaluru, making it harder for them to...


Roli Srivastava
Sep 27, 202412 min read
'Jungle is our Life': The Story of a Village Collective
India gives tribal villages rights over forest land and its produce but the laws have been poorly implemented. A union of villages in...


Abhijit Mohanty
Sep 13, 202410 min read
In Odisha’s Adivasi areas, farmers fish their way back home
A state-run fish farming scheme in Odisha creates livelihood opportunity in drought-hit villages, brings migrants home Abhijit Mohanty...


Sanskriti Talwar
Sep 4, 202411 min read
“The machines have taken over our work”
The livelihoods of an estimated 15 lakh farm workers in Punjab – not counting the thousands of migrant labourers in the state - are at...


Arshdeep Arshi
Aug 29, 20247 min read
'Who will till your land?'
Hostility towards migrant farm workers in Punjab villages raises livelihood and dignity concerns Arshdeep Arshi Migrant workers Sikandar...


Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth
Aug 23, 20248 min read
Migrant workers head to the Valley to beat the heat
Bedmakers, construction workers and street vendors landed in Kashmir in larger numbers this year as relentless heatwaves swept across...


Anuj Behal
Aug 16, 20247 min read
Inside Delhi's Momo Capital
In the heart of Delhi, the welcoming urban village of Chirag Dilli, has given an address to countless migrants from the northeast, who...


Varsha Torgalkar
Aug 9, 20246 min read
The invisible victims of Pune’s Porsche crash
Migrant workers in the city’s bars and pubs have become jobless following government action against places serving liquor Varsha...


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...


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..


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

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