When she was 15 years old, she was told that she would get a stitching job in an export factory in Delhi but she never did. Instead, she was 'sold' in Delhi’s red-light area, GB Road, where she spent the next 30 years of her life. Up until a year ago, she wanted to leave but could not.  In 2022, however, with support from NGOs Savera and Shakti Vahini, and the hope of creating a better future for herself, she left the job.  Today, the woman, aged 45, stitches tote bags and makes earrings for a l...

Since 13 February, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers from Bihar have been assembling peacefully at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to put forth their demand to roll back mandatory app-based attendance.  Marking attendance on the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMPS) app daily was mandatory in January. Since then, many claim, they have "lost attendance and in turn, wages due to weak network."

"Earlier, other women would question why we were learning how to drive... But now that we have a job with the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), they look up to us. They are inspired, and they want to learn driving, too,” said Komal Choudhury, 23, who hails from Rajasthan's Mundawa.  Komal is among the 34 women bus drivers in the DTC fleet. After free training provided by the Delhi government, the women were inducted into the fleet – and most of them were hired in the last six months.

As the cold wave grips Delhi, with the city recording 1.8 degrees as the lowest temperature one night this week, not everyone is indoors. On one of the coldest nights this winter -- 5 January -- The Quint met delivery executives, auto drivers, and security guards who keep the city functional at night, despite the cold. Most are daily wage labourers who migrated to the Capital from other places in a bid to earn a livelihood.

The yellow Ambassador car or the peeli taxi is woven into Kolkata's fabric ever since the first one hit the roads back in the '60s. For residents, it's more than just a mode of commute, the peeli taxi is a ride down nostalgia. Each year, however, the streets see fewer yellow taxis than the previous one. This is because yellow Ambassadors have not been in production since 2014, and taxi drivers say that their cars will touch the 15-year-mark very soon -- rendering them unusable.  Does this mark t...