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Nishtha KawraniThe Better India |
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...
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...
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...
We all know what smartwatches and fitness bands do for humans. They count our steps, monitor our sleep, track our heart rate, and even alert us when...
On a hydroponic farm in Gujarat, rows of cucumber vines stretch neatly under a climate-controlled structure. The fruits hang uniformly from the...
Every day, Aavi is discovering that even the smallest steps can carry the biggest kind of courage. At just three years old, she is learning to walk...
Every morning, the sun arrives with enough energy to power entire cities. Most of it goes unused. One café in Odisha decided to put some of that...
Women entrepreneurs are redefining what development looks like in India's most remote corners. Across tribal communities, women are turning...
In most homes, Sunday mornings unfold slowly, with a little extra sleep, a warm cup of chai and the day easing in. In Pooja and Dipesh Dedhia’s...
When Deepti Sharma was growing up in Agra, cricket was the dream she kept running towards. She would often accompany her elder brother, Sumit Sharma,...
How long can a dream wait? For K Surendran, better known to millions as Indrans — the answer is more than six decades. At an age when many people...
Parenting transforms us in ways we rarely anticipate. It changes routines, priorities, relationships, and often, the way we see ourselves. For many...
Few things in India unite all of us. The smell of chai on a rainy day. The excitement of finding money in an old pair of jeans. And that tiny symbol...
Six-year-old Shiven misses a shot, bursts into laughter, and insists on a rematch. His father, Nishant Chaturvedi, plays along, equal parts coach,...
For many children, education is more than a classroom lesson — it is a chance to dream beyond their circumstances. It is often the one door that can...
Some dreams seem impossible when viewed through the lens of circumstance. After all, how does a boy from a small farming family, who walked nearly six...
In Honnakiranagi village in Karnataka, summer once arrived with heat, dust and departures. As temperatures rose, many families packed their bags for...
In Ankleshwar, Gujarat, Vedant and Aditi watched heaps of factory waste pile up around their town every day. At the same time, summers were growing...
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...
There’s something magical about the arrival of litchis each summer. Their rosy-red shells peek out from fruit carts, kitchen bowls overflow with...
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...
For generations, millets were a familiar sight on Indian plates. Bajra rotis paired with garlic chutney in Rajasthan, ragi mudde in Karnataka, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On a warm afternoon in Balipur village, a group of women sits in a circle inside the Panchayat building. Some have come straight from the fields,...
At first glance, dragon fruit looks less like something you’d slice into a fruit bowl and more like a prop from a fantasy film — bright pink skin,...
Every winter, thick smoke from burning crop residue blankets parts of northern India. For many farmers, stubble left behind after harvest is often...
Every sporting milestone begins long before the medal, the record, or the applause. It starts with a young dreamer showing up day after day, believing...
On a long train journey from Delhi to Jaipur, Meera reaches into her bag and pulls out a small carton of milk for her son. They have been on the train...
On a quiet afternoon in Mumbai, two large drums sit on a terrace, filled with lemon peels, jaggery, and water. Nearby, the laughter of children floats...
Innovation has no finish line. Across India, people are constantly finding unexpected ways to solve everyday problems — from turning agricultural...
Harekala Hajabba knew what it meant to grow up without a classroom nearby. In his village in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, children were...
We have become so dependent on electric appliances that it is easy to forget what life felt like before air conditioners hummed in every room and...
There’s a certain magic in stumbling upon art where you least expect it. Not inside the white walls of a gallery or behind a velvet rope, but...
On a quiet afternoon in Aurangabad, a teenager sits at his desk, deeply focused. A laptop screen glows softly in front of him. His fingers — steady,...
A giant cockroach bends down to pick up a discarded plastic bottle from the banks of the Yamuna. Around it, more cockroaches, armed with gloves,...
“Family is about finding the people you can build a life with — and discovering there are no rules to how that life should look,” Aditi Anand...
The Manorama River in Uttar Pradesh had almost disappeared beneath layers of plastic, filth, and waste. The water that once flowed through the region...
With orange alerts taking centre stage on our phone screens, summer no longer feels like just another season. It arrives with warnings, power cuts,...
In a world grappling with overflowing landfills, single-use plastics, and the environmental cost of celebrations, a new wave of entrepreneurs is...
A child sits cross-legged on the floor, her fingers dipped in paint. Blue blends into yellow, then green, not within the lines, not following any...
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