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For most engineering students, final-year projects often stay confined to classrooms or lab submissions. But for one student from Mohan Babu...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. At the break of dawn in Gurugram,...
There is a particular kind of person who believes an animal can be brought back from the edge. Not saved in a zoo or a sanctuary, but actually brought...
Summer in India is bursting with sunshine, long days, and the perfect weather to grow plants that love warmth. Beans are one of the easiest and most...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. India produces 3.5 million tonnes...
On a humid evening in Bengaluru, a brown, wiry dog curls up beside the gate of an apartment complex. He is neither rare nor remarkable in the way...
Using just water, this smart crate keeps vegetables fresh — no electricity, no fridge needed. In peak summer, nearly 40 per cent of fruits and...
In Manipur, where cycles of violence have shaped everyday life for decades, loss is not an isolated event. It lingers — in disrupted households,...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. At the peak of the pandemic —...
In Marsavalli village in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district, an 86-year-old woman recently sat on a wooden bench in a classroom,...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Varun Khurana, a computer science...
The garden feels like it is holding its breath under the fierce midday sun. Soil cracks into jagged patterns, each fissure a silent plea for water,...
When summer arrives in India, it doesn’t just bring soaring temperatures — it brings streets alive with colour, rhythm, and centuries-old...
The fishermen in Gujarat spend a great deal of time looking for stars. Not in the sky, but in the water. I’m amused as one of them, Ratilal...
Have you ever looked into the eyes of a dog that waits for you on the street when you’re late? The way it lights up the moment you turn into the...
In the blistering desert heat of Barmer, where summer temperatures can soar close to 50°C, survival is not just difficult — it’s a daily...
For decades, the Terai saw the one-horned rhinoceros in fragments, until one morning in Dudhwa, the grass began to part again. Then, slowly, they step...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. As Raja Ramakrishna Chinna Swamy...
For many women in India, a signature is more than a mark on paper. It is the first proof of identity they can claim as their own. Not long ago, most...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Growing up in a slum area in...
By early afternoon in peak summer, many homes begin to feel like furnaces. The ceiling radiates heat, fans whirl at full speed, and yet the air feels...
“Driving wasn’t something I ever imagined for myself. Not because I couldn’t, but because no one around me ever thought I should. Once I sat...
Naresh Purohit (12) is like any other child when it comes to going to school. Some days he just doesn’t feel like it. Except that Naresh has an...
In Madhya Pradesh, the Ajnar River was once the lifeline of its town. Over time, that lifeline began to choke. Plastic waste piled up along its banks....
Yushika Jolly, a 26-year-old from Ankleshwar, Gujarat had been colouring her hair all through college using formulations she bought off the internet....
On a bright summer morning, when the air already carries a hint of warmth, the idea of growing something tropical at home feels almost instinctive....
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. For Bangalorean Vishwanath Mallabadi...
On the lush-green campus of IIT Madras, where humans and animals coexist in harmony, one familiar presence has been brightening stressful academic...
A documentary camera lingers on a tigress moving through dry grass, no rush in her stride. For many,Legendary Tigers of Indiacaptures the beauty of...
In a sunlit corner of her Bengaluru home, 15-year-old Manya Harsha sits bent over a sieve, her hands steady as she presses onion peels into textured...
In the vast, wind-swept grasslands of Kutch, hope is walking on two fragile legs. A week-old chick of the Great Indian Bustard, one of India’s most...
As summer temperatures climb across India, many households are returning to a simple, time-tested way of staying cool: drinking water stored in a clay...
There’s a very specific feeling that arrives every April. It sits somewhere between excitement and dread, the ‘Sunday night feeling,’ but...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Anaya Jethanandani’s schedule is...
Not all strength is loud or visible at first glance. Sometimes, it reveals itself in the quiet decision to keep going — to rebuild, to return, and...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Breast cancer is the most common...
Sometimes, it takes just one line of music to stay with you long after the song ends. Not because it is loud or dramatic, but because it feels real,...
Have you ever seen a house being transported from one place to another? Yes, like a complete house. Me neither, until Moon Bhandari (38) sent me...
For a lot of young Indians, 1 April isn’t just about taxes or salary cycles. It’s that moment when you open your bank app, scroll through recent...
At 87, Mohammad Shareef is known to many as a humble bicycle mechanic. But for thousands of abandoned souls, he is the man who ensured they did not...
Rahul Khadtare first discovered hip-hop at age 13, when his friend found a phone lying around inside an auto rickshaw. “We just took the phone...
On an otherwise ordinary evening in early April, a wildlife enthusiast and his son were returning from a safari through the boundless and biodiverse...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. As a teenager, Janak Palta...
India’s small and marginal farmers often find themselves tangled in a complex web of information when trying to understand or access government...
Summer is the season of sunshine, warmth, and nature’s riot of colours. Few flowering plants can match the sheer vibrancy of bougainvillaea. Its...
On a warm afternoon in Gunawad village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district, a group of women sit in a circle beneath the shade of a neem tree,...
India’s summer months are notoriously harsh, with temperatures often soaring well above 35°C in many parts of the country. For children,...
In many parts of the country, the day often begins with small calculations. When will the electricity come? How many hours can the work run? Will...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Toy Trunk, a Pune-based startup...
In the spring of 2012, in the West Bengal Sundarbans, Sudhanshu Dey bent down to the soil with a handful of indigenous rice seeds. The Sundarbans had...
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