Articles by Laasya Shekhar

Uncertain livelihoods, deteriorating health and poverty resulting from pollution have placed the women of Ennore in deep distress. What are their demands?

Women garment workers suffer wage theft, forced terminations and harassment, but the labour department rarely monitors violations or acts against employers.

A third COVID wave seems inevitable. What role can official and citizen communication strategies play in lessening its intensity?

More than 1000 acres of the backwaters are heavily contaminated with fly ash from the leaking pipelines of TANGEDCO. Government promises and court orders have all come to nought.

பத்திரிகை விநியோகிஸ்தர்கள் கொரோனா மற்றும் ஊரடங்கினாள் மிகவும் பாதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். எவ்வாறான முயற்சிகள் அவர்களுக்கு உதவும்? அரசாங்கம் என்ன செய்யவேண்டும்?

Before the lockdown, the ornamental fish and aquarium industry that grew up in Kolathur had a daily turnover of Rs 1 crore. Now traders are desperately waiting for government support.

Newspaper distributors play a crucial role in the print media industry. Yet they have been left out of all welfare and COVID compensation schemes.

Apartment owners who have water meters vouch for the savings they experience – in terms of money as well as precious water resources.

Hear a diverse, eminent panel discuss the prime concerns regarding waste management in Chennai in the wake of COVID and possible solutions.

From reverse migration of workers to the oxygen crisis, this is how various factors came together to cripple small and medium businesses and livelihoods in the sector.

Crematorium workers in Chennai have been living a nightmare since COVID deaths peaked. Their demands deserve a fair hearing.

Slogging 14-plus hours a day without a single day off duty, they are grossly underpaid. With that, they have now taken up other equally pressing issues with the state.