Ankita Dhar Karmakar

🧵(1/10) What does a day in the life of a woman #gigworker look like? Our reporter @dharspeaks shadowed Lata Bharadwaj, who works as a rider with #Zomato, for nearly 9 hours. Here's what we found - #labourrights #work #gender

(11/11) Read our report where we shadow a Zomato delivery rider, Lata, on Delhi’s roads, mapping her daily life and the precarities of gender in gig work. questionofcities.org/unfair-unjust-…

(10/11) She has requested the platform several times to exempt women from delivering to the doorstep and have customers collect from the gate or reception – to no avail. “Ladies upar nahi jaani chahiye itne raat ko kisi ke ghar,” she shrugs.

(1/11) A few weeks ago when we were discussing ideas in our small newsroom @CitiesQuestion on what stories to do for International Labour Day, we knew we had to continue our reporting on gig work and gig workers.

(7/7) What transpired during those five days of strike? And what lies ahead? Read my ground report for @CitiesQuestion here: questionofcities.org/new-battle-in-…

(6/7) At the heart of this is the contract labour system. Workers doing essential, often skilled work remain informal, underpaid, and easily replaceable. #informalwork #panipatprotest

(1/7) A thread on the #Panipat construction workers protest: Last month, nearly 30,000 contractual construction workers of the IOCL refinery went on strike that lasted five days. #panipatrefinery

And now an IIT-D study says that Delhi was never suitable for cloud seeding in the first place. What are the IIT-K researchers even doing?! theprint.in/environment/up…

Can’t believe that the #Delhi govt spent close to ₹4 cr. on cloud seeding only for it to fail spectacularly. Ofc there wasn’t enough moisture - there never is around this time of the year. This is not news. Even the union minister of environment had declared that last year!