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On 25 March 2010, in a hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, Sheeja gave birth to her daughter, Sandra. Within hours, doctors delivered a...
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...
Long before Delhi turned to aircraft-based cloud seeding to clean its toxic air, a scientist in Kolkata was trying to make rain using hydrogen...
Lead pollution is one of India's most overlooked public health crises. According to a 2020 UNICEF and Pure Earth report, India is home to over...
Every morning in Tamil Nadu’s Kakapalayam, near Salem, 84-year-old Chinnusami sits down at his loom. The wooden frame is old, and so is his body....
Every day, more than a lakh pilgrims visit Tirupati, and with them comes a flood of offerings: fresh flowers, coconut shells, plastic bottles and...
In May 2026, runners from 28 states gathered in Uttarakhand's remote Niti Valley for a three-day ultra-running event held nearly 4,300 metres...
In parts of India, you can tell what colour a factory dyed its fabric that week just by looking at the river next to it. One such dye is Methylene...
In July 2018, textile design students Arjunvir Singh and Rashi Sharma wanted to spend their college fieldwork documenting Suzani embroidery in...
In a solar plant in central Madhya Pradesh, an 11-year-old installation was dying a slow death. The panels, battered by over a decade of dust and...
Every Sunday morning, in the wide green lawns of Bhubaneswar's Biju Patnaik Park, something joyful is happening. Dogs that spend their weekdays...
For six months, Janak Patel watched money slip away from his dairy farm in Gujarat. His buffalo was going into heat without the visible signs farmers...
She is frozen in time as a Bollywood romance, draped in gold, her eyes soft with longing for Akbar. But the woman history has long called 'Jodha...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For most people learning to code today, the starting point is a screen. A cursor blinks, blocks of colour shift, and feedback arrives visually,...
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...
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...
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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