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‛Extreme Heat Imperils Chronic Disease Patients in Informal Settlements’: Lack of ventilation, cooling methods, and increased susceptibility to heat make every summer dangerous for those living with chronic disease in India’s urban slums and settlements. Also: ‛In Delhi’s Scorching Heat, Its Poorest Women Are Back to the Chulha’.
‛How Indian States Are Using FIRs to Reframe Wage-Related Workers’ Disputes as Crimes’; ‛Money, ID, Only Link to Family: Noida Police Hold on to Phones Despite Workers Being Released’; ‛May Day Under Police Watch in Noida: Workers’ Resistance Persists’.
‛Why Chhattisgarh’s Midday Meal Workers Have Not Given Up Their Fight for Better Pay’: Their work is crucial for children’s wellbeing, but they earn less than Rs 70 a day. A two-month strike sought to secure them a daily wage of at least Rs 350. Also: ‘Govt Doesn’t Seem to Care for Those Taking Care of Country’s Mothers, Children’.
‛Notes from Noida’; ‛The Workers Who Keep India’s Cities Running Have a Simple Message – Pay Us Living Wages’; ‛Noida: High Profits, Stagnant Wages, and a City on Edge’; ‛In India, Minimum Wages Exist Only on Paper’.
Across villages in India, protests erupted in December 2025 after the Narendra Modi-led BJP government scrapped one of the largest social safety nets in the world and replaced it with a watered-down version.
As youth unemployment hits a record high, Himachal Pradesh is quietly replacing permanent recruitments with temporary “Mitra” roles – a new model of gig-style governance, one that leaves over 6.7 lakh jobseekers without security or timelines.
‘Is No One in India Jobless After They Turn 30? Data Has the Answer’; ‘Why Skilling Alone Will Not Solve India’s Employment Problem’: The Union Budget should have prioritised development expenditure which is employment creating in nature.
When growth numbers flatter power, hide job scarcity, and mute rising costs, bad data stops disciplining policy and democracy pays a hefty price, writes the famed economist professor.
‘The Supreme Court’s Remarks on Trade Unions Are Not in Conformity with the Constitution’; ‘Domestic Workers, Women’s Labour, and the Language of the Courts’; ‘Incinerated in the Name of Growth: The Price of India’s War on Trade Unions’.
The State Is Withdrawing from Protecting Unorganised Workers’; ‘“The Doorbell Is Not the Problem”: Why Government Regulation Is Necessary for the Gig Work Sector’; ‘What the State and Start-Up Ecosystem’s Celebration of India’s Gig Economy Tells Us About the Precarious Future of Work’.
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