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Meet the Delhi Man Helping 30000+ Women Feel Less Anxious About Salon Bills

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Nishtha Kawrani

Watch: 17-YO Girl From UP Village Solves a Farm Dust Problem; Takes Her Idea From School to Tokyo

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Niharika Dabral

From Amputees to the Visually Impaired: How a Diverse Group of Trekkers Conquered the Himalayas

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...

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Krystelle Dsouza

Before Chemical Cleaners, Indian Homes Relied on These Ingredients

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

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Raajwrita Dutta

A Kashmiri Engineer Made This 60-YO Berlin Restaurant a Home for Indian Flavours

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...

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Krystelle Dsouza

Locals Turned Wildlife Protectors Are Safeguarding 101 Corridors To Help Elephants Move Safely

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,...

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Krystelle Dsouza

How DeHaat Is Using AI to Transform Farming for 1.8 Million Small Farmers

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

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Tbi Team

5 Women Rode to Nathula Pass at 14000 Feet & One of Them Was a 76-YO!

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...

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Niharika Dabral

At 40, an Indian Woman Climbed Antarctica’s Highest Peak

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...

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Nishtha Kawrani

Best of 2025: 10 IAS & IFS Officers Who Took on India’s Toughest Problems & Fixed Them

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...

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Niharika Dabral

24 Hours in Shimla: Heritage Walks, Sustainable Stays & Snowy Thrills

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...

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Krystelle Dsouza

Jharkhand Woman Farmer Turns Climate Risk Into Rs 15 L Livelihood

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...

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Ragini Daliya

6 Beautiful Homestays in India for a Slow, Meaningful Travel Experience

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...

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Nishtha Kawrani

Where to Donate Kids’ Toys, Books & Clothes in India This December

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...

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Niharika Dabral

Why Local Kids Love This Small Community Library in Mehrauli

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...

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Niharika Dabral

We Asked Parents, What Is One ‘90s Winter Memory You’re Recreating With Your Kids?

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

thursday 7

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Leila Badyari

How a Blind Man & 200 Homemakers Are Reviving Mangrove Forests of Sundarbans

The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in June 2024.  Come June, the women of Jharkhali, South 24 Parganas district in West...

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Hiren Kumar Bose

No Towers, No Cables: How ISRO’s Latest Launch Could Bring Mobile Connectivity to the World’s Most Remote Places

A crisp December morning at Sriharikota. The ground shakes as two massive boosters ignite, sending clouds of smoke spiralling into the sky. Slowly,...

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Nishtha Kawrani

The Surprising History Behind India’s Traditional Christmas Food

In India, Christmas isn’t just a date on the calendar — it’s a scent, a ritual, a taste shared across generations. Long before decor, lights and...

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Ragini Daliya

25-YO Hyderabad Mother Turned Her Postpartum Experience Into a Solution for 10000+ Women

The first thing Keerthi Aashish noticed in her postpartum was the silence. Not the quiet of a sleeping newborn, but a heavy, internal quiet — a fog...

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Ragini Daliya

Best of 2025: Meet the 10 Indians Who Took Personal Risks to Save Wildlife Across India

Conservation goes beyond saving species; it also means preserving the delicate balance between humans and the natural world. Through the stories...

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Krystelle Dsouza

‘How I Built a Mud Home in the Mountains for 1.3 Lakhs'

As a child, Neha Ballal would spend hours toying with clay. She loved the creative abandon the material allowed. Now at 32, that love has segued...

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Krystelle Dsouza