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Reality Check

The Hidden Cost of India’s Cities: Lives of Migrant Workers

The Hidden Cost of India’s Cities: Lives of Migrant Workers

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.

ByCharan Mahananda | Dec 24, 2025

The Fine Print

Here’s Why MNREGA Had to Be Destroyed

Here’s Why MNREGA Had to Be Destroyed

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.

ByPradeep Narayanan | Dec 21, 2025

Frames of Reality

How Unregulated Antifungal Creams Are Driving India's Ringworm Epidemic

How Unregulated Antifungal Creams Are Driving India's Ringworm Epidemic

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.

Poetic Prescriptions

How to go to Dalli Rajhara?

How to go to Dalli Rajhara?

In Dalli Rajhara, miners and peasants built a hospital that still provides empathetic, cost-effective care rooted in collective action—not state systems.

ByRohith M | Dec 14, 2025

Bitter Pills

Dear Doctor, Thank You

Dear Doctor, Thank You

Blaming patients for getting cancer when the government sells tobacco and the health system fails them everyday is unfair.

ByParth Sharma | Oct 21, 2024