Gayatri Menon

Gayatri Menon is a historical sociologist. She works on the political economy of development, focusing on urbanization, displacement, and questions of home. She is currently working on urban health as a consultant at the Public Health Foundation of India's Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity and Social Determinants of Health.

Silent Footfall: India’s Migrant Worker Crisis

By / Issue 39, Labour, Magazine / 9 minutes of reading / , , , ,

The pandemic revealed the precarious political and economic conditions of migrant workers in India. Their distress and their long, torturous flight from the city show how they have been rendered politically redundant and are not visible to the capital and the state as rights-bearing subjects.

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Proximity and Intimacy in the Lives of Pavement Dwellers in Mumbai

By / Issue 34, Intimacy, Magazine / 8 minutes of reading / , ,

Along many of the tree-lined side streets that radiate away from one of Mumbai’s main railways stations are rows of tiny, painstakingly assembled dwellings perched on the pavement, a hairs breadth away from swiftly moving vehicular traffic. Some of the dwellings are two storeys high, fabricated from bits of corrugated metal sheets typically used for

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