A letter from the editor spotlighting our best stories which amplified the voices of the marginalised, boldly ventured into topics often ignored or suppressed and demanded accountability from power also featuring some of our staff members’ personal favourites!
India’s cities thrive on invisible labour. This article shows how rural policy failures, weak labour protections, and urban informality combine to trap migrant workers in cycles of exhaustion, illness, and precarity. By design, not by accident.
Technocratic evaluations have become political tools, tearing down a programme that gave workers power and dignity. Stripped of political understanding, policy now quietly serves corporate interests at the expense of the poor.
A curable fungal infection has turned into a silent epidemic in India, driven by irrational steroid–antifungal creams, poor regulation, and structural neglect. This photostory traces how a simple itch spirals into chronic illness, resistance, and quiet suffering among the poor.
In Dalli Rajhara, miners and peasants built a hospital that still provides empathetic, cost-effective care rooted in collective action—not state systems.
Blaming patients for getting cancer when the government sells tobacco and the health system fails them everyday is unfair.
