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.

Thousands arrive in Mumbai chasing dreams, but what happens when illness strikes in a city that doesn't stop to care?

As rapid urbanization transforms Bhopal, residents of its informal settlements are left to fend for themselves against intensifying heat waves, without basic infrastructure, water, or state support.

Life in Mumbai’s slums is marred by violence, trauma, and systemic neglect— as seen firsthand in a casualty ward where victims of assault, accidents, and abuse fight for survival daily.

Most government hospital OPDs in urban areas are closing early, pushing patients into already overcrowded casualty departments. How is this system failing the very people it's meant to serve, and what can be done to fix it?

Rising temperatures are differently impacting people, especially in urban cities.

Poverty is not the only reason why child labour still plagues India.

India aims to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to every citizen. Are migrant workers a part of this ambitious dream?