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9 AM Standup Meeting to 9 PM Standup Comedy: ‘I Quit My High-Paying Job To Make People Laugh for a Living’

9 AM Standup Meeting to 9 PM Standup Comedy: ‘I Quit My High-Paying Job To Make People Laugh for a Living’

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...

05.05.2026 10

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A Walk Through Old Jodhpur: 16 Rare Photographs That Tell the Blue City's Forgotten Story

A Walk Through Old Jodhpur: 16 Rare Photographs That Tell the Blue City's Forgotten Story

Long before Jodhpur became the postcard-perfect "Blue City" of Instagram reels, it was a walled town of seven gates, a desert kingdom...

01.05.2026 30

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A Raipur Startup Raised Incomes for 200 Artisans by 30% — By Changing How Traditional Craft Gets Made

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...

27.04.2026 40

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These Artists Helped Indian Folk Arts Move From Village Walls to Galleries Across the World

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...

21.04.2026 20

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Built in India, This Simple Smart Stick Warns Farmers of Hidden Snakes From 100 Metres Away

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...

16.04.2026 20

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From Keeping Her Family Afloat at 9 to 12000 Songs by 90: 6 Things You Didn’t Know About Asha Bhosle

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...

13.04.2026 20

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Why Everyone Is Stopping To Stare at These College Walls in Karnataka

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...

03.04.2026 30

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Architect Reimagines 1100-Year-Old Stepwells for a Modern University in Indore

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...

27.03.2026 20

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Watch: Kerala Artist Uses Only Waste to Recreate Kantara's Tiger With Striking Detail

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...

19.03.2026 30

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From Ladakh to Odisha, How Communities Across India Are Finding Simple Ways to Care for Water

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...

18.03.2026 30

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Good News This Week: Meet 4 Indians Feeding Strangers & Helping Children This Ramadan

Ramadan often brings people together around food, reflection, and generosity. Across India, the month also becomes a moment when many quietly step...

14.03.2026 60

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How 18000 Discarded Kulhads Became a Striking Pavilion on Goa’s Coast

At first glance, this structure in Goa looks like something shaped by the earth itself. Soft curves rise gently against the coastline, forming a...

12.03.2026 40

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Good News This Week: Women Leading Change From AI Gynaec Help To Flower Waste Innovation

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...

07.03.2026 20

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From a Bihar Village to 187 Countries: This 24-YO Travels the World by Hitchhiking

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...

05.03.2026 20

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In Pics: 250 Chairs Come Together to Show Centuries of India’s Design, Craft & Everyday Life

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...

05.03.2026 20

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Bengaluru Turns Pink Each Summer Thanks to This IFS Officer

Every summer, parts of Bengaluru turn pink. The blossoms of Tabebuia rosea spill over roads and footpaths, softening traffic-heavy stretches and...

26.02.2026 20

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A 14-YO Used a Decade-Old Camera to Capture This Global Prize-Winning Bee Shot

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...

26.02.2026 20

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How 111 UP Villages Came Together to Clean & Desilt 89 Km of the Tamsa River

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...

19.02.2026 20

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This Award-Winning Photograph Captured the Power of a 1500-Year-Old Kerala Tradition

12.02.2026 10

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A New Home for India’s Campus Changemakers: Better Campus by The Better India

10.02.2026 30

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Why an Indian Startup’s AI Performed Better Than Gemini & OpenAI on Indian Language Tasks

10.02.2026 30

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Long Before Its Iconic Campus, Delhi University’s First Classrooms Were Inside a Rented Cinema Building

06.02.2026 20

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This Srinagar Chrysanthemum Garden Is Bringing Visitors Back After a Year of Fear & Loss

05.02.2026 10

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What Makes One Person Stand up When Hate Becomes a Crowd?

04.02.2026 20

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Abandoned as a Baby in Nagpur, Dutch Mayor Reunites With the Nurse Who Raised Him After 41 Years

23.01.2026 30

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As Winter Fires Burned Uttarakhand, This Father–Daughter Duo Planted 70000 Trees for the Himalayas

20.01.2026 20

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Introducing BETTER CAMPUS: Is Your College Doing Work the Rest of India Should See?

12.01.2026 20

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From ‘Kantara’ to ‘Tanvi the Great’, 4 Indian Films Enter the Oscars Best Picture Race

09.01.2026 10

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Photo of the Week: How a Shepherd’s Son Made It to the IPS

06.01.2026 10

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Photo of the Week: Indian Wildlife Photographer Beats 109 Countries To Take World No 1

23.12.2025 20

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A 10-Minute Pitch at a College Event Helped a Sibling Duo Win Rs 35 Lakh for Their Coffee Startup

09.12.2025 10

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6100 Women Turned Rajasthan’s 1st Ghoomar Festival Into a Moment Now Etched in Asia Book of Records

21.11.2025 10

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Worth Rs 12000 a Kilo, 180 Farmers Have Created India’s First Lavender Honey in Kashmir’s Purple Fields

21.11.2025 20

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The Hyenas Saving an Entire Grassland Ecosystem by Clearing Carcasses Before They Spread Disease

19.11.2025 30

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The Nagaland Village That Once Hunted 14000 Falcons a Day & Now Welcomes Millions Each Winter

17.11.2025 20

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What One Man’s 11-Year Fight Against Gaalis Can Teach an Internet Divided by Hashtags

12.11.2025 10

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From Late-Night Meetings to Crore-Worth Prizes: Meet the IIT Bombay Students Powering Startups Since 30 Yrs

05.11.2025 10

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From Manipur to Maharashtra, Meet 7 Indians Lighting up Villages With Simple Solar Ideas

20.10.2025 10

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Inside the TBI Showcase 2025 Celebration That Brought India’s Changemakers Under One Roof

17.10.2025 30

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How 1000 People & Kids as Young as 7 Are Fighting To Save a Jaipur Forest From Disappearing

01.10.2025 20

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What It Takes To Keep the Lights On: The People Who Transformed Odisha’s Power Story

25.09.2025 20

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Meet TBI Showcase ‘Agri Changemaker’ Who Is Empowering 2 Lakh Farmers Across India

25.09.2025 20

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Meet TBI Showcase ‘Health Changemaker’ Who Brought Lifesaving Care to 70000 People in Assam

24.09.2025 10

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Indian Photographer’s 120-Day Chase Brings the Rare Black Tiger of Similipal — Unseen for Centuries — To NatGeo’s Cover

22.09.2025 30

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Rap Meets Real Heroes — Watch the Official Anthem of the Better India Showcase 2025

17.09.2025 20

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This 25-YO Has Cremated 3000 Unclaimed Bodies & Rescued 1500 Abandoned People

In 2008, Ravi founded the Earth Saviours Foundation and would personally go out into the streets to find disabled and destitute people — bringing...

04.09.2025 20

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Once Mocked for Her Burn Scars, This Beauty Creator Now Inspires Thousands With Art & Social Media

Manisha Prajapati, known as Mannu, was just four when a tragic accident left her with severe burns. Defying societal rejection, she turned to art for...

02.09.2025 100

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Nominees Announced! 5 Young Changemakers Proving Age Is No Barrier to Innovation

From solar-powered flour mills to pocket-sized insulin carriers, these five young changemakers are proving that innovation has no age — and that the...

26.08.2025 30

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Grand Jury Announced! Meet the 10 Icons Choosing India’s Biggest Changemakers

From forests to boardrooms, they’ve built change that touched millions. Now, these 10 impact leaders will select the heroes of The Better India...

17.08.2025 40

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How This Domestic Help’s Love for Dance Led to 6.8M Insta Followers

Born into poverty, Varsha Solanki worked as a domestic help while nurturing a lifelong passion for dance. After marriage and motherhood, she turned to...

12.08.2025 30

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