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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...
While most travellers head to popular hill stations when the summer heat sets in, the northeast holds some of the country's earliest and most...
In the high villages of Himachal Pradesh, tucked between deodar forests and the cold blue of Himalayan peaks, there are houses that have been standing...
In the vast landscape of rural India, where a government hospital can be hours away and the nearest doctor may be a name on a board rather than a face...
In 2022, at the peak of a career that had taken her to MD and CEO roles at major financial firms, Rajashree Nambiar left it all behind. Not for a...
For most of India's 2.5 lakh gram panchayats, governance still means paperwork, queues, and the quiet frustration of not knowing where public...
On the dusty banks of Pedda Cheruvu in Vizianagaram, a quiet revolution was taking root — one photograph, one prayer, and 20 determined transgender...
If you’ve travelled by train in India, you have almost certainly used this invention. You are on an Indian Railways train, somewhere between...
There are a handful of things an international cricketer cannot control when she walks out onto a Test match pitch: the weather, the pitch conditions,...
Imagine a satellite hundreds of kilometres above Earth quietly watching a wheat field in Haryana — and spotting water stress before the farmer even...
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...
This article has been published in partnership with Aditya Birla Group. Every year on 5 June, World Environment Day prompts a familiar chorus of...
Situated at 1,664 metres in the Agastyamuni block of Rudraprayag district, this small village of Maniguh in Uttarakhand commands sweeping views of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Climate policy in India has long lived at an altitude — dense national documents, state-level action plans, ministerial committees, and...
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...
On a humid weekend evening in Chennai’s Anna Nagar Tower Park, groups of strangers gather around chessboards under the trees. Some are...
There is a number circulating in Indian travel circles that is hard to ignore. According to Skyscanner's Travel Trends 2026 report, searches...
On a late evening in 1994, in the shadow of the Brihadeeswara Temple in Thanjavur, a twenty-something Bharatanatyam dancer stood on an open-air stage...
In a temperature-controlled room inside a manuscript archive, a conservator gently lifts a palm leaf no thicker than cardboard. The manuscript is...
It is in the early 1800s and somewhere in the narrow lanes of old Banaras a woman watches her husband get marched away by the British Army, pulled...
Artificial intelligence has spent the past few years promising to transform healthcare. But inside Indian hospitals, especially those outside major...
Sometime in the early 18th century, in the port town of Nagapattinam on the Tamil coast, someone made a decision born of desperation. The Dutch East...
In the days before polling in Tamil Nadu, more than 4,000 candidates were clamouring for attention across 234 constituencies — on walls, on...
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