Labour Chowk | Magazine
We leave for the city to work; we leave our homes for the factory. We leave the factory to go home, but the factory never leaves us—first it protects us, and then it kills us. In the end, our dead bodies leave for the village.
We laborers are here to express ourselves: to cry, laugh, get angry, celebrate, get emotional, be silly, and yes, be vulnerable (though we already are). We are here to rise, to fight, to mingle, to protest, to protect—and I mean protecting you all—and so much more. Do you want to hear us?
Labour Chowk, which means "labor stand," is a place you’ll find in every city—a spot where we sell our labor to you. But here, at Labour Chowk, we are not here to sell our labor. We are here to tell our tales.
Labour Chowk is an online art magazine that celebrates the lives of laborers through various art forms—poetry, short fiction, paintings, cartoons, songs, photographs, and more. But not academia.