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“We wanted to do purposeful work,” says Bhumika Marwaha, a 43-year-old engineer from Mumbai, on how she and her colleague Bipin Joshi started...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Author Gaura Pant ‘Shivani’, in her...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. A nuisance for water bodies, water...
When Rashmi Pandey looks back at the early days of parenting her daughter Nandini, one habit stands out clearly: the phone had slowly become a way to...
As thick smoke billowed out of a hotel in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, panic spread through the building. Guests rushed to windows, shouting for help as...
Picture this: it is barely past dawn in Kattakudi, a village in Madurai district. The summer sun is already warming the air. At the edge of a pristine...
There’s something magical about the arrival of litchis each summer. Their rosy-red shells peek out from fruit carts, kitchen bowls overflow with...
When Kerala-based entrepreneur Beena Tom began turning fruits and flowers from her backyard into homemade jams, pickles, squash, juices, and chips,...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Life was on tenterhooks for...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In 2013, Rahul Rastogi was leading a...
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...
This article has been published in partnership with Aditya Birla Group. Every year on 5 June, World Environment Day prompts a familiar chorus of...
A pastel-coloured stroller stands folded behind a bedroom door. A box of tiny onesies sits untouched on the top shelf. Battery-operated toys that once...
Situated at 1,664 metres in the Agastyamuni block of Rudraprayag district, this small village of Maniguh in Uttarakhand commands sweeping views of...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. On 25 March 2020, we lost the...
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...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished aspart of our archival content.‘Comfort drizzled onto a dish’ is how...
Mahak Chauhan walked into a trial in 2023 thinking she was there for a race. It turned out to be a rugby trial. Three years later, the 20-year-old...
For generations, millets were a familiar sight on Indian plates. Bajra rotis paired with garlic chutney in Rajasthan, ragi mudde in Karnataka, and...
“Zero waste is not about perfection. It is about trying your best every day to reduce what you send back to the planet,” says Nishtha Chauhan,...
The school courtyard is louder than usual. A group of teenagers stand in a semicircle, some holding hand-painted banners and others mid-dialogue in a...
On most days, people crossed the bridge over Kerala’s Meenachil River without slowing down. Boats drifted gently below, plastic bottles floated...
In the remote villages of the Himalayas, where mountain streams rush down rugged slopes, an age-old technology continues to serve local communities....
On the evening of 1 June 2026, a Bengaluru resident sat in the middle of Old Airport Road in protest after traffic police halted all movement for...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In a small hamlet in Karnataka’s...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Akanksh Tandon fondly recalls playing...
There is a small white tablet that millions of people in India and around the world take every day without much thought. Sold under the brand name...
“When you cycle, you create neither noise pollution nor air pollution. You move slowly enough to hear the birds, feel the mountains, and genuinely...
In the dry stretches of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, where farming depends more on hope than certainty, livelihoods have been influenced by...
For nearly two centuries, it survived like a rumour in the margins of botanical history. In 1836, British botanists recorded a climbing shrub with...
Most people retire from competitive sport long before they retire from work. For N S Dattatreya, a former manager with the State Bank of Mysore, the...
Originally reported and written in March 2025, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Summer is the perfect time to get...
Books have a unique way of changing lives. For some, they open doors to new worlds; for others, they become the spark for a lifelong mission. For...
Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Growing up in the Western Ghats, Mangal...
Climate policy in India has long lived at an altitude — dense national documents, state-level action plans, ministerial committees, and...
In most Indian kitchens, cheese still arrives in familiar cubes of paneer or in the household-favourite form of Amul cheese. But beyond supermarket...
Along the Belagavi–Sirsi highway near Haliyal in Uttara Kannada, red earth gives rise to a forest of mango saplings. Grafted stems rise in neat...
“I used to be very scared to speak in English because I thought I would make mistakes and everyone would laugh at me, so I stayed quiet even when I...
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,...
As dawn breaks over Adimali in Idukki, Kerala, 62‑year‑old Saseendran VT heads to his rooftop, where lush passion fruit vines drape across...
You’ll find a list of tandoor items on the menu of most Indian restaurants, no matter what corner of the world you’re in. The science of baking...
By the time the first water tanker entered Bansawargaon each summer, the village already knew what the coming months would look like. Queues near...
What does it take to start afresh in your career? For 34-year-old Bharat Bansal, it was a strong sense of inspiration that he took from his own...
In Mumbai’s intense summer heat, where concrete buildings trap warmth and push temperatures higher, one home has taken a different path. The...
For generations, mornings across India began with a familiar chirping of house sparrows. Their presence was so ordinary that it rarely got any...
This article has been published in partnership with Roche Pharma India. For around 2 lakh people in India, life with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a...
Imagine you are a tourist visiting the Jagannath temple town of Puri. Your phone goes missing in the crowd. In the past, you would have had to locate...
Layers of clay come together to tell a story. A musician playing a drum, a village procession, a traditional figure or a beloved folk hero – all...
The monsoon is almost here. The southwest monsoon has already touched the Andaman & Nicobar Islands — five days early — and is expected to...
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