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.
April 2026
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.
Migration Bulletin: Crowded platforms, silent factories
From an LPG shortage sending migrants back home to the fear of names going missing from electoral rolls – India’s migrant workers navigated multiple challenges in April
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.
From Punjab to Australia: A great grandson uncovers his family’s century-old migration history
On this podcast, author Manmeet Bedi about his motivation to trace and tell his family’s migration story in the form of an illustrated children’s book.
When the salt turns brown: Freak rains batter livelihoods in India’s Little Rann of Kutch
From unseasonal rains to cyclones and dust storms, more and more unpredictable weather patterns spell doom for Little Rann of Kutch’s ancient salt trade — and family legacies
Deported Indians take ‘donkey’ route agents to court over failed American Dream
For dozens of Indians, the hunt for ‘greener pastures’ in the U.S. has left them with debt, court cases, and few job opportunities
The inheritance of debt: Bihar’s Musahars still marry, give birth in bondage
For generations, Musahar families in Gaya Ji district have had to migrate to brick kilns and work in bondage, way below the legal minimum wage, and while the state recently rescued many such workers, they are still awaiting rehabilitation
The heat nobody counted: Why Noida protests were not ‘just’ a wages story
Contractual migrant workers bear the highest occupational heat burden in India, which has added to the burden of stagnating wages amid a shifting policy landscape that has stretched work hours
Rethinking welfare for workers
As extreme weather events become more frequent, migrant workers in cities like Bengaluru are among the most affected. But are existing welfare systems equipped to respond?
