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The Better India
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The Bhopal-Jabalpur National Highway in Madhya Pradesh cuts through the heart of the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve — home to tigers, leopards,...

Home to numerous scenic marvels, Kashmir leaves one spoilt for choices with a long list of beautiful tourist spots. And yet, there are several...

On most mornings in Kolia, a soft mechanical buzz rises from a small room where sewing machines line the floor. Women sit shoulder to shoulder,...

In a Bengaluru home, an app flags unseen electricity wastage. In a remote village, a health worker confirms a diagnosis without a lab nearby. In a...

No one embodies the adage “age is just a number” better than 87-year-old Mandakini Shah, who effortlessly zooms through the roads of Ahmedabad on...

On a warm afternoon in Bengaluru, a young mother picked up a bottle of ‘natural’ sunscreen for her six-year-old, trusting, as any parent would,...

The woman stands outside the salon for a moment longer than she needs to. She adjusts her bag, glances at her phone, and looks through the glass...

The whirr of a threshing machine outside her school was a familiar sound for Pooja Pal. So was the dust it threw into the air. One afternoon, as...

The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in June 2025. The mountain gods of Dayara Bugyal (12,000 ft above sea level), a meadow...

In an age of increasing environmental awareness and growing concern over chemical exposure within the home, many households are revisiting...

A pang for Indian food hit me like a brick as I walked out of Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport. That’s what two weeks of surviving (read: attempting to...

S P Pandey vividly remembers the night he received a call informing him about a commotion that had ensued near the local river in the Dooars region,...

This article was originally published on the NITI Frontier Tech Respository. DeHaat is an AI-driven, full-stack agricultural platform founded by...

The air thins as the road climbs. Engines hum against mountain silence. Wrapped in riding gear, five women stand at over 14,000 feet, smiling into...

In the vast silence of Antarctica, where white stretches endlessly, and the wind cuts through every layer, a lone figure stood at the summit of...

As 2025 draws to a close, some of the year’s most meaningful changes unfolded far from podiums and press conferences. They took shape in classrooms...

Winter has finally arrived in Shimla, bringing the much-awaited chill. If you’ve been scouring the news for the snowfall updates, well, your wait...

Every farming season used to begin the same way for Priyanka Kumari. She would step into her fields in Jharkhand’s Gola block, look at the soil...

Some places don’t just let you stay, they make you feel at home. You wake up to birds instead of alarms, sip chai made from ingredients grown a few...

A sweater a child has outgrown. A picture book read one too many times. Toys that once ruled the living room floor, now sitting untouched. As homes...

On a regular afternoon in Mehrauli, children step into a modest room lined with shelves of books. Some curl up with a story. Others spread...

Growing up in the 1990s has increasingly become a shared point of nostalgia. It appears often now, across social media, in conversations, in...
