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12 June 2025

Nourishing, everyday recipes of working-class migrants

Cooking can be a negotiation between customs from the village, the cost of ingredients, and the availability of familiar produce in Bengaluru’s migrant kitchens

Niyati Shah

Anoushka Srinivas

Team TMS

Team TMS

30 Apr 2026 • 8 min read

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The migrant verses of ‘School Chalein Hum’

From bus classrooms in Gujarat’s salt desert to schools under Delhi’s flyovers, remedial centres in Chandigarh, seasonal hostels in Odisha and container classrooms in Thane, educators across India are finding ways to keep migrant children learning where the formal system too often leaves them behind.

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Tanmoy Bhaduri

22 Aug 2025 • 8 min read

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As Kolkata’s ‘visual icons’ fade, migrant drivers hit roadblock

The yellow taxi isn’t just a vehicle—it’s a livelihood, a symbol, whose history has been carried by generations of migrant drivers in Kolkata. As they are phased out for clean air and modern mobility, drivers say the transition is not just—it is exclusionary.

Prashant Nakwe

Prashant Nakwe

17 Apr 2025 • 7 min read

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‘I don’t want to remember those years’

The reappearance of smog and congestion signal thriving business and normal life in Mumbai’s massive slum Dharavi

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

27 Mar 2025 • 13 min read

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Only way home: Trains remain the migrants’ lifeline

For Mumbai’s migrant workers, train journeys home are a reminder of past hardships — and the fear of their return

Anuj Behal

Anuj Behal

04 Mar 2025 • 12 min read

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The merchants of Kumbh

The recently concluded Kumbh mela drew not just pilgrims but toy sellers, chaat makers and sanitation workers from across Uttar Pradesh and also neighboring states who turned up in large numbers to tap the world’s largest religious gathering to boost incomes

Mansi Bhaktwani

Mansi Bhaktwani

19 Nov 2024 • 8 min read

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Our daily bread: Rising pollution casts a shadow on Mumbai’s bakers

To switch from wood or wood scrap to alternate fuels to fire their ovens would increase production costs and impact the business of countless small bakeries in the city

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Tanmoy Bhaduri

07 Oct 2024 • 7 min read

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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 year: Durga Puja. Away from their families, they are integral to the festivities - from pandal decoration to making idols and transporting them

Niyati Shah

Niyati Shah

12 Jun 2025 • 16 min read

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Nourishing, everyday recipes of working-class migrants

Cooking can be a negotiation between customs from the village, the cost of ingredients, and the availability of familiar produce in Bengaluru’s migrant kitchens

Anwesha Ganguly

Anwesha Ganguly

30 May 2024 • 4 min read

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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 with their earnings

Tanmoy Bhaduri

Tanmoy Bhaduri

12 Apr 2024 • 2 min read

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Sunaina Devi’s farm revolution

Home alone after sons migrate, farmer taps solar to tackle water scarcity on her farm

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