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When the millet harvest arrives in the Yimkhiung villages of eastern Nagaland, the celebrations go far beyond the harvest itself. Families come...
At the edge of a small temple lane in Bengaluru’s Sampangiram Nagar, a circular stone well sits behind a metal grill canopy. A few years ago, most...
The sea keeps its secrets well. Beneath the ocean's surface lie some of the planet's most fragile ecosystems and some of the infrastructure...
The kitchen cabinet was the last place the family expected to find a snake. On a rainy morning last July, residents of a third-floor apartment in...
Every monsoon, the first signs of severe weather are easy to spot — towering trees swaying in strong winds. Most withstand the storm. Some...
There are not many cities that can run out of water in April and struggle with flooding by September. Bengaluru has lived with that contradiction for...
In the summer of 2019, Chennai looked like a city waiting for water. At street corners, plastic pots stood in long lines before tankers arrived. In...
The loan officer did not begin with a stack of papers. Instead, a satellite image appeared on the screen. From hundreds of kilometres above the Earth,...
Before the India Meteorological Department (IMD) releases its monsoon forecast, and before weather apps begin flashing percentages and storm maps,...
Every year, around the early months, Odisha’s coastline makes the news for the same reason: thousands of Olive Ridley turtles emerging from the sea,...
In Mawsynram, the wettest inhabited place on Earth, people have learned something most of us never will: how to live with rain that rarely stops....
In the Sundarbans, a honey hunt can begin with a small movement in the sky. As the tide shifts through the mangrove creeks, the mouals (traditional...
When heavy rain lashes Bengaluru every monsoon, roads fill up, drains struggle, and thousands of trees and branches across the city come down. But on...
The road to the village is rough, winding through dense forest and carrying memories of years of conflict. In a video that has since gone viral, IAS...
You may have seen it during a regular grocery run. A packet of turmeric says 'organic'. A bottle of shampoo is labelled 'natural'....
Before a medicinal tree blooms, they know it. Before a stream begins to shrink after a weak monsoon, they notice it. Before a changing season appears...
The first thing visitors notice at Tsomgo Lake today is the water. At more than 12,000 feet above sea level, the glacial lake reflects the mountains...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A breeze rustles through the banyan trees. Dragonflies skim the water’s surface. Temple bells echo through the humid air. For generations, this was...
Walk through Valluvan's farm in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, and it does not look like a typical coconut plantation. Banana plants grow beneath tall...
Anyone who has lived through a monsoon has seen what rain can do to iron. A gate starts turning orange. A railing begins to flake. A tool left outside...
In 1989, inside a busy municipal hospital in Mumbai, Dr Armida Fernandez was searching for a way to save the babies she could not stop thinking about....
Every summer, before it reaches gift boxes or official addresses, Zardalu begins where it has always belonged: in the orchards of Bhagalpur. The...
"My understanding of empathy and kindness was shaped largely by three women: my mother, my sister, and the first house-help we had growing up,...
As Indian summers grow hotter, communities, schools and organisations across the country are increasingly turning to tree plantation drives as a way...
At 13, Pratik Shingare began seeing Pune in a way he never had before. A road accident had left him with multiple fractures, and during recovery, he...
By the time Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) rescuers reached the dry agricultural well in Odisha’s Similipal landscape, the sloth bear at the bottom...
Every evening, Erika sets the pace. She walks a familiar route through the forested grounds of the Elephant Rehabilitation Centre in Ban Santour,...
In Ekalkhori, the sand was always part of life. Then it began coming too close. In the village near Jodhpur, hot summer winds pushed loose sand...
Scientists tracing a suitcase full of seized pangolin scales may soon be able to tell not just what species the scales came from, but the exact forest...
For nearly two centuries, it survived like a rumour in the margins of botanical history. In 1836, British botanists recorded a climbing shrub with...
In most Indian kitchens, cheese still arrives in familiar cubes of paneer or in the household-favourite form of Amul cheese. But beyond supermarket...
At the edge of Jait Sagar Lake in Kota, the morning begins with the chatter of a group of young volunteers moving along the waterline near Sukh Mahal,...
By the time the first water tanker entered Bansawargaon each summer, the village already knew what the coming months would look like. Queues near...
For generations, mornings across India began with a familiar chirping of house sparrows. Their presence was so ordinary that it rarely got any...
The Western Ghats are spectacular during the monsoon, but for years, most travellers experienced them through the same crowded routes: Mahabaleshwar...
Growing up, there was always a corner in our homes reserved for things that might still be useful someday. Old newspapers, glass bottles, cardboard...
In the villages of Jharkhand, farmers still run handfuls of rice through their fingers before deciding what to cook. Some grains are black and glossy....
In many Indian towns, the arrival of rain brings a familiar scene. Roads flood. Stormwater rushes through concrete drains, and within hours, the water...
On a normal day in a coastal village, climate change may not look like a global crisis. It may look like a family waiting for clean drinking water...
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