India, Feb. 8 -- India's consumer services giants are enduring a winter of discontent. From ride-hailing drivers to quick commerce riders, gig workers are protesting over shrinking payouts and gruelling schedules.

The latest one came over the weekend, as drivers associated with Uber, Rapido, Ola, and Porter staged a nationwide protest over minimum fares and restrictions on the use of private vehicles for commercial rides.

In the same week, gig workers associated with Urban Company, Zomato, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart also raised similar concerns through collective strikes in Delhi NCR, and other cities.

These are not isolated episodes. Such has been the clamour and the intensity of these back-to-back strikes that the issues related to gig ...