Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra Citizen Matters, Mumbai

English language pushes youth in Kasaiwada up the economic ladder

January 25, 2021 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Teenagers in this Kurla neighbourhood learn English and hope to achieve upward social mobility

As vaccines are being approved, time to remember stories of those who helped us through 2020

January 5, 2021 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

As talks of vaccines acquire a shrill pitch, we speak to mortuary workers at one of the biggest public hospitals in the city. And how they saw us through the hard days in the past few months.

How anti-CAA NRC protests changed the lives of Mumbai’s women

October 19, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Coming out on the streets to claim their rights has permanently changed the women. Here’s how.

4Ts of Dharavi’s successful pandemic management: Tracing, Tracking, Testing, Treating

July 28, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

The daunting responsibility of managing the outbreak in Dharavi, spread over 2.5 square kilometres packed with 60,000 families. How it was done

No income, no food, no government relief: Kamathipura’s sex workers pushed to the brink

July 13, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

With no income and no food for the past three months, the sex workers of Kamathipura are desperate to go back to work, even if it gets them just a cup of tea and bread!

In e-learning push, corporation schools in Mumbai left in the lurch

June 16, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Little thought is being given to how students of corporation schools will be able to access this, given that for most of them access to quality internet connection and the devices required is severely limited.

Fighting COVID-19 in Dharavi with just a face mask, Mumbai police gets a raw deal

June 1, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Over 2000 cops in Mumbai have tested positive and 20 have succumbed to the disease. This could have been minimised had the 50000 strong force been better trained and equipped.