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On a school trip to Delhi’s Sundar Nursery in 2023, Mahi Malhani was trying to take in the heritage park’s history and restoration. But her...
As Indian cities search for ways to cope with rising temperatures, water shortages and increasingly erratic rainfall, one solution lies hidden...
In a village in north Karnataka, the nearest pharmacy is 20 kilometres away. For most people, this is simply an inconvenience to plan around. For a...
On the edge of a forest in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, bamboo is much more than a natural resource. For the Gond Adivasi community of...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Picture this — a tranquil farm where...
Jackfruit is not the kind of tree that demands constant attention. Once it is well-rooted, it quietly gets on with its job — growing taller each...
On a hydroponic farm in Gujarat, rows of cucumber vines stretch neatly under a climate-controlled structure. The fruits hang uniformly from the...
Trigger Warning: This story includes references to sexual assault and the emotional impact of trauma. Reader discretion is advised. As part of our...
Every day, Aavi is discovering that even the smallest steps can carry the biggest kind of courage. At just three years old, she is learning to walk...
When Manoj Prabhakar Mahajan wants to know whether rain is likely over his fields, he no longer waits for a visit from an agriculture officer or calls...
In the village of Karkitchoo, about 13 kilometres from Kargil town in Ladakh, lives a man who has never sat in a classroom, and yet holds an honorary...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Trigger warning: This story contains...
In Telangana's Khammam district, many children learn to use a bow and arrow long before they ever see an archery range. For generations, the bow...
In Kodagu, rain shapes everyday decisions on coffee estates. It is something people notice, talk about, and remember. For coffee growers in this hill...
Nine women waited backstage in Jaipur on a winter evening in 2025. For some, it was the first time they had travelled alone. For others, it was the...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. “One day, I will build a farmhouse...
Every morning, long before most of Delhi wakes up, 77-year-old Natarajan begins his day with a mission. By 4 am, he is already working to ensure that...
By afternoon in Agra, the heat settles heavily over construction sites, roadside corners and tree-lined stretches where birds gather in search of...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In a palatial spot in Candolim, along...
Civil servants spend their careers behind files, postings and transfer orders. But every now and then, one of them looks past the paperwork and...
In this first-person account, facilitated by Nishtha Kawrani and narrated to The Better India, Devanshu Srivastav reflects on his late father and...
Every morning, the sun arrives with enough energy to power entire cities. Most of it goes unused. One café in Odisha decided to put some of that...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Dr Prasanna Jogdeo, a marine...
Women entrepreneurs are redefining what development looks like in India's most remote corners. Across tribal communities, women are turning...
After fifty years of planting trees, Peepal Baba has arrived at a set of conclusions that sound almost backwards: nature doesn't need saving,...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. It was the winter of 2017 when...
2,000 guests. Two days of celebrations. Thousands of meals served. By most standards, Neha and Shankar’s wedding had the scale and warmth of a grand...
On a Tuesday morning inside a free school run by a non-profit in the tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh, a teacher paused midway through a story and looked...
Along the West Deo River in Odisha's Similipal Tiger Reserve, a forest team scans the waterline. A pair of eyes breaks the surface. Further...
Ravikant (name changed) had farmed the same black soil fields in the Gadag district all his life. At 60, he felt fine. He had no chest pain, no fever,...
This monsoon, one of the easiest crops to grow at home may already be sitting in your kitchen. Turmeric grows well in the rain, needs little space,...
The craft that created Mohenjo-daro's iconic Dancing Girl is still alive in India today. Yet the tradition that has endured for 4,500 years could...
For most people learning to code today, the starting point is a screen. A cursor blinks, blocks of colour shift, and feedback arrives visually,...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Flawed and fabulous is how Anurag...
What if the next breakthrough antibiotic isn't discovered in a laboratory, but deep inside a cave? A recent review suggests it could be growing...
In this first-person account facilitated by Nishtha Kawrani and narrated to The Better India, Shubhangi Bajpai remembers her father, whose greatest...
In most homes, Sunday mornings unfold slowly, with a little extra sleep, a warm cup of chai and the day easing in. In Pooja and Dipesh Dedhia’s...
When Deepti Sharma was growing up in Agra, cricket was the dream she kept running towards. She would often accompany her elder brother, Sumit Sharma,...
On June 10, 2026, a twin-engine military transport aircraft lifted off from the Tata-Airbus Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Vadodara, Gujarat. It was not...
A breeze rustles through the banyan trees. Dragonflies skim the water’s surface. Temple bells echo through the humid air. For generations, this was...
Desi cuisine has often pleased palates around the world for its burst of flavours. And things are no different at Chintan Pandya’s restaurants in...
“Even if your uncle is the President, the challan will be issued.” That sentence from IPS officer Anu Beniwal went viral after a traffic check...
In this first-person account facilitated by Nishtha Kawrani and narrated to The Better India, Mumbai-based software engineer Bhanu Singh reflects on...
The sound of branches cracking echoed through the air in Dadara, one of the last nesting grounds of the greater adjutant stork, locally known as the...
How long can a dream wait? For K Surendran, better known to millions as Indrans — the answer is more than six decades. At an age when many people...
Step into the old quarters of Moradabad on any weekday morning and the city announces itself through sound before sight. The rhythmic clinking of...
In May 2026, while much of the football world was focused on Mexico, another tournament was quietly making history on the same soil. Eight girls from...
Walk through Valluvan's farm in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, and it does not look like a typical coconut plantation. Banana plants grow beneath tall...
Originally reported and written in August 2022, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. For anyone who’s had the chance to...
Chemotherapy has been the backbone of cancer treatment for decades, but it comes with a cost that patients know too well. Because most chemotherapy...
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