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
May 2024
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.
The case of climate refugees
Rising temperatures, sinking coastlines, and increasing extreme weather events are some major environmental factors that will force people or communities to move
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
Breaking the migrant stereotype, one story at a time
The ‘Montages of Migration’ series, by the Policy and Development Advisory Group (PDAG), showcases extraordinary stories of the resilience and determination of migrant workers. PDAG
‘Dignity first’ is the resolve of a migrant worker turned boss
Rajesh Ravidas migrated from Jharkhand to Pune as a teenager to work in a fellow villager’s garage. His journey was captured in the Jharkhand Migration Survey that found that one of two migrant workers from the state were from the schedule caste community.
Free and fair
Odisha’s migrant households are seeing a gender-based split in voting preferences, with women rooting for a regional party while men pin their hopes on the national ones.
The drought that spawned an ice cream industry
An auto remodelling hub has sprouted in Rajasthan’s arid Gangapur, where mini trucks are converted into ice cream vends-on-wheels, used by migrants to turn a profit in India’s big cities
