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The fishermen in Gujarat spend a great deal of time looking for stars. Not in the sky, but in the water. I’m amused as one of them, Ratilal...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. As Raja Ramakrishna Chinna Swamy...
Naresh Purohit (12) is like any other child when it comes to going to school. Some days he just doesn’t feel like it. Except that Naresh has an...
Yushika Jolly, a 26-year-old from Ankleshwar, Gujarat had been colouring her hair all through college using formulations she bought off the internet....
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Anaya Jethanandani’s schedule is...
Have you ever seen a house being transported from one place to another? Yes, like a complete house. Me neither, until Moon Bhandari (38) sent me...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Every day, Ghaziabad in Delhi...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. The suburbs of Bombay have a certain...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. This year on 12 January, when Prime...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In 2002, Sowmya, the a student at...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Mohammad Thaha Paloli, Jethin...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In August 2021, Amritha and Harshit...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Sunil Vashisht, a 45-year-old...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In Zarine Mohideen’s home, any...
The forest and Daleep Akoi have always had a lot to say to each other. And their favourite language is silence. Daleep reasons, “Even when it is...
Mumbai-based Renuka Advani (now 61) was 47 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer. Like many patients who receive this diagnosis, she was...
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Ask anyone in Goa about...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Kalyani Pandya, a 29-year-old law...
Originally reported and written in February 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. ‘A Palace of Heritage Beauty’...
At this very moment, thousands of people in the world (most of them probably in Hyderabad) are going about their day, unaware of the quiet connection...
“Think of the game Monopoly,” Arun Pai — the man behind ‘Bangalore Walks’ — urges me, attempting to explain where the idea for this unique...
To create a revolution, one has to step outside one’s comfort zone. This became clear to Delhi’s Neha Upadhyaya right at the outset of her quest...
Have you ever met a child who’s never seen a pencil? Mumbai-based artist Rouble Nagi recalls her interaction with one. It was during an art...
Javed Ahmad Tak (52) still remembers the day his life changed forever. It was in 1997. Javed, who was in his final year of his bachelor of science...
In Uttarakhand’s Khirsu village lies an earthquake-resilient structure. The choice of materials makes it seem almost as if the BASA tourism centre...
When Mohammed Mehrajuddin (35) was younger, try as he did to love the brown bears he would read about in his storybooks, his community’s fearful...
Last year, Basanti Devi (33) moved into a ‘pakka makan’ (a solid, durable home) in Hesapora Tola, Shishatand-Gola village, in the Ramgarh district...
Last year was particularly tough for Varsha Dhanavade, a farmer from Maharashtra’s Mhaswad. Despite a bountiful harvest of pomegranates —...
Holi is around the corner and you may have already started seeing your local bazaars putting their array of colours on display. Beautiful though these...
At just a few years old, Barkat Arora commands a stage with the kind of confidence most adults spend a lifetime building. And today, over three...
Anyone who has lived in farmer Kundan Singh’s mud homestay in Kais village of Himachal Pradesh, is in awe of the piece of beauty that the homestay...
In walking the corridors of power, Anna Rajam Malhotra opened doors for generations of women to follow. India’s first woman IAS officer, Anna’s...
It was 7 pm when I called Chandraprabha for our interview — EOD (end of day in corporate lingo), as most would call it. But she doesn’t follow...
To save the forest, you must save the people who live in the forest. The life lesson visited Sudeep Mehta (42), a finance professional-turned...
Every object in teacher Shanthi Kunjan’s classroom has life. Branches and sticks serve as measuring scales; leaves from the forest teach children...
In 2019, I took a trek to Maharashtra’s Sandhan Valley (also known as the ‘Valley of Shadows’). ‘In awe’ would describe the first reaction I...
The Manas National Park in Assam, declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, is home to around 59 species of mammals, 430 species of birds, and...
Saraswathy N’s memories of food are not simply cerebral. Agreed, she knows the ratio of masalasthat go into a dish by heart. But her culinary...
Gurpreet Singh, a 41-year-old boatman residing in Karmuwala village, Tarn Taran district, Punjab, has been familiar with dolphins since childhood,...
What does it take to find your soulmate after you reach the age of 50? Apparently, at Madhav Damle’s Happy Seniors, a one-time membership fee of Rs...
Why do the leaves on specific trees outside your window change colour? Why do ships float on water? Why do magnets stick to the fridge?...
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