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Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

07 Nov 2025 • 1 min read

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Paper promises? The migrant welfare gap

At a Mumbai convening, campaigners speak about the many welfare schemes available for migrants that exist mostly on paper, as accessing them is extremely difficult due to lack of awareness and cumbersome documentation.

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

08 Oct 2025 • 13 min read

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Once ‘Manchester of India’, Bhiwandi’s textile mills lose their thread

Bhiwandi’s powerloom sector, previously battered by demonetisation, GST and Covid, could take another beating from the U.S. tariffs, which is worrying migrant workers and factory owners

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

24 Jul 2025 • 12 min read

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No voice for migrants in Mumbai’s language debate

India’s financial capital has been a migrant magnet for decades and despite rising political tensions around the language ‘outsiders’ speak, ‘Mumbai is still home’, say migrants

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

29 May 2025 • 11 min read

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In a 10×12 Mumbai tenement, the cost of staying cool

Mumbaikars living in the city's sprawling slums are spending more and more on air conditioners, coolers and exhaust fans, even they if can’t afford to, to deal with the extreme heat

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

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

17 Feb 2025 • 1 min read

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A sea of migrants on Mumbai’s docks

Mumbai's fishing sector workers are former daily wage labourers, farmers and also tailors from across the country, who are drawn to this work to make a better income. But while Mumbai is good for work, it is not "home", they say

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

31 Jan 2025 • 9 min read

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Meandering in deep waters, their boats half empty

Marine fishing becomes a longer and more excruciating exercise for the fishermen off the Mumbai coast as a good catch becomes elusive owing to climate change and coastal degradation

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

27 Jan 2025 • 1 min read

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Migrants comprise more than 70% of Mumbai’s fish sector workforce’

One of Mumbai's oldest inhabitants, the Koli community, no longer wants their children to inherit the fishing trade, creating a vacuum for migrants to enter.

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

30 Dec 2024 • 7 min read

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‘High targets, poor wages, compromised safety’

A worker-led survey reveals poor safety standards in India's auto sector's supply chains

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

20 Dec 2024 • 10 min read

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Fumes, disease, debt: Life in Asia’s largest dumping ground

Breathing toxic air is not a seasonal but a daily reality for residents of a sprawling slum in a Mumbai suburb located next to a massive dumping yard, recycling units and a medical waste incinerator

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