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The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna21 Aug 2026
Ganesh Baraiya was still in primary school when a circus troupe walked into his family's home in Gorkhi village, Bhavnagar district, and offered his father Rs 5 lakh to take the boy away as a...
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta21 Aug 2026
"1 Plant, 100 Uses" explores the many ways familiar Indian plants, leaves, fruits and trees have been part of everyday life — from food and farming to homes, traditions and natural remedies.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta21 Aug 2026
Every monsoon, India’s grasslands witness a rare spectacle. The lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus), locally called kharmore or likh, is the world’s smallest bustard and is endemic to the Indian...
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna21 Aug 2026
On a January morning in 2018, minutes before a Republic Day flypast rehearsal, Squadron Leader Varlin Panwar sat before a radar screen at a frontline Indian Air Force base and watched an...
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani21 Aug 2026
This story is part of “Parenting: What Google Won’t Tell You” — The Better India’s people-led parenting series that goes beyond conventional advice to document how real families are actually...
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani21 Aug 2026
Under the first golden rays of the morning sun, a young athlete moves swiftly across a tennis court in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna21 Aug 2026
In Saurath village, Madhubani district, nearly 160 artists and students came together over several days to paint a single enormous canvas.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani20 Aug 2026
This story is part of “Parenting: What Google Won’t Tell You” — The Better India’s people-led parenting series that goes beyond conventional advice to document how real families are actually...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta20 Aug 2026
In many parts of India, entering a forest once meant entering the home of a deity. It also meant stepping onto land where a tree could not be cut, an animal could not be hunted and, in some places...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta20 Aug 2026
Every year, millions of people make the steep climb to Kedarnath. This year, environmental activist Pradeep Sangwan wants them to carry something back with their memories: a kilogram of waste.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna20 Aug 2026
You're driving up toward a high pass in Ladakh, and the road ahead is blocked. No warning sign, no clear explanation at first glance — just a stretch of tarmac that's been cordoned off, and a small...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta20 Aug 2026
In the floodwaters of Kaziranga in 2019, a trail was almost invisible to the human eye. For K9 Leon, it wasn’t.
The Better Indiaby Firdous Hassan20 Aug 2026
On a quiet spring afternoon, 13-year-old Alimah Hamid is surrounded by more than a dozen members of the Salim Ali Birdwatchers Network (SABN) along the banks of Hokersar wetland on the outskirts of...
The Better Indiaby Hiren Kumar Bose19 Aug 2026
In the early 1980s, India was still reeling from the Bhopal gas tragedy when a young agriculture officer in Palakkad, Kerala, found her compass in a slim book from Japan.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta19 Aug 2026
While we rush to get ready for work and reach for that first cup of coffee, there is a particular kind of silence inside a coffee estate in the Western Ghats.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta19 Aug 2026
For a family that has just lost someone in a building collapse or an industrial accident, the name of the fund behind the compensation is rarely the first question on their mind.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta19 Aug 2026
A baby elephant disappears beneath its mother's body. It is only a few weeks old, moving with a herd through the forest patches of Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta19 Aug 2026
Retirement usually brings a common question. What comes next? For thousands of older Indians, the answer became travel, friendship, and fresh beginnings after two entrepreneurs from Haryana decided...
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna19 Aug 2026
Every district collector's office has a chair reserved for visitors, but in Gujarat's Chhota Udepur, collector Gargi Jain chose a different one: a plastic chair inside a government school...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta19 Aug 2026
In the sandbanks of Bihar’s Gandak River a long-snouted reptile lies motionless on a stretch of pale sand, its jaw pointed towards the current.
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