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Avantika KrishnaThe Better India |
For years, hundreds of children in Ratlam's government primary schools (in Madhya Pradesh) spent their mornings the same way: seated cross-legged...
For months, health workers in Shahdol could reach only eight of every ten pregnant women on their call lists. The other two were the ones most...
Every morning, 18-year-old Mohini Parmar cooks, cleans, and helps prepare her younger siblings for the day. Her father died during the COVID-19...
In 1995, an 18-year-old in Mumbai did something that made no obvious sense at the time. He mortgaged his family's house to fund an editing studio...
You pull up at your regular petrol pump and notice something new. A small sticker near the nozzle. A line on the receipt you haven't seen before....
This is a first-person account, narrated to The Better India by Himanshika Sharma, who is living with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and building an...
Sometimes a story does more than just get read. It moves people to act. When The Better India shared Nikhil Bharadwaj’s story, readers met a...
Your leftovers, recreated There's no warning sign, no wall text preparing you. Just a stainless steel table, gleaming under gallery light, plates...
Mumbai's floods are, by scientific consensus, unavoidable. "If 90 mm of rain occurs in two hours, any city in the world will flood,"...
Long before children traded Pokémon cards on school playgrounds, India had its own beloved deck. Ganjifa, a game of hand-painted, circular cards,...
When Mohan, a 69-year-old retired engineer from Ernakulam, woke up after spine surgery, even the smallest movements felt out of reach. He could not...
Every monsoon, Wayanad's hills carry the risk of disaster. Steep slopes, saturated soil and increasingly erratic rainfall have made this Kerala...
When Chetna Jogi walks to her classes at Government Veerbala Kalibai Girls' College today, she does so without a second thought. It's easy...
Every evening, the ground in Valluvar Nagar in Sainikpuri, Telangana, fills up with nearly 90 boys chasing a football. But look closer, and you will...
This article is in partnership with Taiwan Excellence Winston Yang had a good life on paper. A degree from Columbia. Stints at Deutsche Bank and...
Long before the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued its first forecast, farmers across India had developed their own ways of reading the...
This article has been published in partnership with vivo India. No one would want a security camera inside a washroom, a hostel corridor at night,...
Nineteen street vendors in Lucknow now have a little more shade over their heads. For people who spend long hours by the roadside, selling fruits,...
Think about your morning. Someone swept your floor before you had your first cup of chai. Someone washed last night’s dishes while you were still...