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Ever planned a vacation enthusiastically only to realise your beloved pooch can’t accompany you because the place isn’t pet friendly? That ends...
This week's good news comes with mud on its hands and sun in its eyes. There is a school in Sikkim that takes three hours of off-road travel and...
After every harvest, Madhavi Guttikonda’s terrace garden is left with dried vines, old stems, weeds, and pruned branches. Most of us clear them away...
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...
It often begins with a late-night Google search. A teenager worried about irregular periods types symptoms into a search bar. A parent watches three...
The arrival of the monsoon in India is more than just a change in weather. It is a season of anticipation. Farmers scan the skies, children wait for...
Originally reported and written in July 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Maharashtra’s Sachin Gore grows...
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...
Getting to Pentong village in Sikkim’s Dzongu region is an adventure in itself. The journey involves nearly three hours of off-road travel, crossing...
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....
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,...
In Meghalaya, rain is part of everyday life. The hills stay wrapped in mist, forests glow in deep shades of green, and water runs through the...
Every day, more than a lakh pilgrims visit Tirupati, and with them comes a flood of offerings: fresh flowers, coconut shells, plastic bottles and...
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,...
The Siji River has always followed the same path through Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Siang district before flowing into Assam. But after a massive...
Originally reported and written in July 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In the heart of Kerala’s Idukki...
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...
On the far edge of Wai, where the Satara hills slope towards the Wai–Panchgani road, a two-acre mango orchard stands beside the boys’ hostel of...
Originally reported and written in June 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. A common thread across Ruskin Bond’s...
Farming in India has always meant dealing with things you can't control: the weather, the soil, the market price on the day you sell. This week,...
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....
You’re sitting near a foggy window. The first rains have just begun. The air around you immediately seems more exciting with the prospect of a...
“Soil is the foundation of farming. If we do not understand what is in the soil, how can we expect the crop to grow well?” says Swapna Sonkambale,...
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...
By the time the sun begins to set over Berunda, Gautam Yadav has already put in a full day’s work. Like countless daily wage labourers, he spends...
Sometimes, a story stays with people long after they have watched it. When The Better India shared Keya’s journey with Parry-Romberg syndrome, the...
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