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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...
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,...
Civil servants spend their careers behind files, postings and transfer orders. But every now and then, one of them looks past the paperwork and...
Something happens when an engineer decides a problem is personal. They stop looking for someone else to fix it and start taking notes. This week, four...
What happens after 60 if you choose a start line instead of slowing down? Across India, senior citizens are taking up sport, returning to forgotten...
The monsoon is almost here. The southwest monsoon has already touched the Andaman & Nicobar Islands — five days early — and is expected to...
Every summer and monsoon, turtles across India leave ponds, lakes, wetlands, and rivers in search of nesting spots, water, or safer ground. Sometimes,...
It is 4 am in Jungle Mahal village, and the lane outside Ghanshyam Maurya’s house is still dark. The 52-year-old has already left, pushing a wooden...
It was a New Year's Eve house party, somewhere in the years before any of this had a name. The host kept telling the room that the party...
Long before Jodhpur became the postcard-perfect "Blue City" of Instagram reels, it was a walled town of seven gates, a desert kingdom...
Santu Tekam lives in Patangarh, a small town in Madhya Pradesh where Gond tribal painting is as ordinary as farming. In his village of about 1,000...
In Pitol, Madhya Pradesh, painting was part of daily life. Walls came alive with scenes of forests, animals, and rituals, built slowly with layers of...
For many farmers, the day stretches well beyond daylight. Water has to be released into the fields after sunset, pumps need checking at odd hours, and...
In September 2023, a 90-year-old woman walked onto a stage at a packed arena in Dubai and sang and danced through a full live show. The crowd rose to...
At Sahyadri Commerce and Management College in Shivamogga, the walls do far more than hold up a building. They tell stories. A portrait of Kuvempu at...
At first glance, it looks like a giant brick landscape rising out of the ground. But this striking building in Indore draws from something deeply...
Some artworks make you stop because they are beautiful. Others hold your gaze because you cannot quite believe what you are looking at. This tiger...
Water shapes life in every part of India, but the ways people care for it can look very different from one region to another. In some places, it is...
Ramadan often brings people together around food, reflection, and generosity. Across India, the month also becomes a moment when many quietly step...
At first glance, this structure in Goa looks like something shaped by the earth itself. Soft curves rise gently against the coastline, forming a...
This week’s good news comes with heart and backbone. It has a woman who mothered thousands, and a daughter keeping that love going. It has an AI...
Growing up in a small village in Bihar, Shubham Kumar imagined a future that looked familiar to many students around him. The plan was simple: finish...
At first glance, it looks like a room filled with chairs. Look closer, and each seat begins to reveal a different chapter of India’s past. Currently...
Every summer, parts of Bengaluru turn pink. The blossoms of Tabebuia rosea spill over roads and footpaths, softening traffic-heavy stretches and...
In this week’s Photo of the Week, the world feels suddenly small in the best way possible. At first glance, you might read the image as a...
If you have ever lived near a small river, you know how easily it becomes part of your everyday life. It runs past fields, marks shortcuts between...