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 redevelopment
July 2024
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
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 becoming less dependent on migration for work in cities in neighbouring Rajasthan and Gujarat
The cost of going green
The contribution of brick kilns to Delhi’s overall emissions was around 6 to 7%, according to a 2018 report
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, lean on traditional networks to find new work
Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt
Migrant women and children labouring round the clock moulding bricks
struggle to access food and essential health services
Overworked, underpaid: The growing burden of recycling fast fashion
Visual artist Richa Arya’s installation – I Sew My Life Against My Own – which was shown at the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa in December, 2024, uses scrap to tell the story of women cutting and sorting discarded clothes.
