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.
As Idukki’s tea plantations witness a demographic shift from Tamil migrants to workers from states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, trade unions act as bridgemakers through mediation, negotiation and conciliation
Development economist Dr Santosh Mehrotra unpacks the implications of India’s new codes and the governance questions that arise from the attempts to reform labour laws
The Deka family lives all alone in their ancestral home in one of Assam’s most flood-prone regions, unable to afford land or migrate elsewhere
Women from strife-torn Manipur migrated to New Delhi’s Munirka, a hub for people from the North-East, but found insecure jobs, hardship and discrimination
From Panipat to Surat and Barauni, recent protests by workers constructing crucial petroleum oil refineries across India flag stagnant wages and precarious contracts
On Hyderabad’s. outskirts, migrant workers from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal face an uncertain future as rapid urbanisation and new industries eat into farms, shrinking their size and jobs
Despite recent efforts to revive khana, a fabric woven for saree blouses only in Guledggudda town, weavers tell a long history of migration to cities in search of better-paying work
Many organisations working in the development sector are producing important work on the ground, but these efforts remain insufficiently communicated beyond reports and documentation
Through his Kochi-Muziris Biennale installation, Only the Earth Knows Their Labour, artist Birender Kumar Yadav reflects on seasonal migration, precarious labour and the lives of brick kiln workers, evoking their presence through traces rather than bodies.
The ongoing war has triggered a fuel crisis, prompting reverse migration from…
Around 700 people from the 750 households in Odisha's Manikapur village work…
Panic over LPG shortages due to the West Asia conflict has driven…
Art explorer Simeen Kaleem discusses the past, present and future of Indian…
Scores of migrant workers from across India bought exorbitant train and plane…
The ongoing conflict in West Asia is beginning to impact energy supplies,…
