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Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

30 Apr 2026 • 1 min read

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How the war risks derailing India’s push for clean cooking

With LPG supplies disrupted by the Gulf War, India’s clean cooking gains are under threat as families switch to firewood.

Monish Upadhyay

Monish Upadhyay

30 Apr 2026 • 1 min read

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The LPG crisis burning through Delhi’s migrant settlements

Across Delhi, migrant workers have always struggled to access LPG cylinders for cooking. They find it extremely difficult to register themselves on the government portal to get a cylinder under legal provisions. Bureaucratic hurdles, lack of documents, limitation of the schemes and other challenges push them to the black market to buy cylinders, but at a heavy price.

Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

14 Apr 2026 • 9 min read

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India’s LPG crunch sends migrants packing to uncertain future back home

The ongoing war has triggered a fuel crisis, prompting reverse migration from major cities as workers return to rain-dependent rural economies with limited savings, just ahead of dry summer months

Rakhi Ghosh

Rakhi Ghosh

14 Apr 2026 • 1 min read

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The war casts a shadow on this Odisha village

Around 700 people from the 750 households in Odisha's Manikapur village work in the Gulf states. The families are now on edge, with families worried for their loved ones.

Suresh Kumar, a migrant who works at Flipkart’s warehouse near Manesar, Haryana, makes packaged macaroni because it consumes less cooking gas. Sanskriti Talwar/The Migration Story
Sanskriti Talwar

Sanskriti Talwar

10 Apr 2026 • 13 min read

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‘We are facing the war’s consequences’: Workers in global giants’ India warehouses struggle for food as LPG prices soar

Panic over LPG shortages due to the West Asia conflict has driven up prices of the cooking gas in informal markets, forcing many migrant workers in Haryana, Gujarat and Maharashtra to switch over to instant meals or worse still, return to their villages

Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

31 Mar 2026 • 1 min read

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From COVID lockdown to Gulf crisis — India’s migrant workers face another storm

The ongoing conflict in West Asia is beginning to impact energy supplies, travel, and livelihoods, whose adverse impacts are already reaching migrant workers and their families.

S Irudaya Rajan

S Irudaya Rajan

13 Mar 2026 • 12 min read

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India’s Gulf migration model faces a new test

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The migrant workforce in the Gulf has weathered many geopolitical tensions and economic downturns in the past. But the ongoing West Asia conflict could have a far greater impact with the uncertainties already beginning to reshape economies and labour markets.

Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

11 Mar 2026 • 13 min read

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‘Waiting for flights to resume’: Gulf-bound Indian workers in limbo as war disrupts travel

Flight disruptions caused by the West Asia conflict have forced Indian workers headed there to stay back, depriving many of better prospects and pushing them into debt and uncertainty

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