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The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna29 Aug 2026
Walk through Kaza market during a Spiti wedding and silver seems to move on its own, covering crown, neck, and wrist alike.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta29 Aug 2026
“Earlier, if we couldn’t sell our mangoes in time, they would eventually rot. We had no option but to accept whatever price the local traders offered us,” says Jiwanti Bara, a 50-year-old farmer...
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani29 Aug 2026
There was a time when paying for a Rs 20 ice cream meant checking your wallet for change. A Rs 35 packet of vegetables could leave you counting coins in your palm.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani28 Aug 2026
The first drops of rain can bring out two very different reactions at home. While children may be eager to run outside, jump in puddles and feel the rain on their faces, parents are often quick to...
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna28 Aug 2026
Picture a fifty-acre lake right behind your house. Now picture still having to buy water in cans to drink, cook and bathe, because the lake outside your window is too choked with sewage and garbage...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta28 Aug 2026
A restaurant kitchen can look immaculate from the dining room. A milk tanker can look like any other on the highway. A packet of paneer can carry a familiar brand name.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta27 Aug 2026
A rui (rohu) can spend its life in a pond in Bengal without drinking much water. A bangda (Indian mackerel) in the Arabian Sea faces the opposite challenge: surrounded by saltwater, it must prevent...
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta27 Aug 2026
Padam Singh cannot remember the last time he bought a lemon. That is because outside the rooms of his Delhi home, fruit grows almost everywhere.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta27 Aug 2026
When Bengaluru couple Sajitha and Mahesh decided to rebuild their 40-year-old home, they chose to preserve its memory. The new four-storey house would be simpler, warmer and easier to maintain.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna27 Aug 2026
At Timure, a small trading town on Nepal's border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, customs officer Rajendra Dhungana was overseeing the morning's freight movement when the ground shook.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna27 Aug 2026
In Tousem, a cluster of hamlets tucked into Manipur's Tamenglong district, the sick were once carried to hospital on bamboo stretchers because there was no road wide enough for a vehicle to pass...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta27 Aug 2026
At 17, Laxman Singh left school during a drought and began reviving a dead pond in Laporiya, Rajasthan. Today, his Chauka system has helped transform the village’s water and pasture landscape.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani27 Aug 2026
On a morning in Sirampur village in Odisha’s Khordha district, a group of women look towards the sky as a drone moves over acres of farmland.
The Better Indiaby Anuja Vartak26 Aug 2026
Imagine seeing India 150 years ago, before modern cities changed its landscapes and before photography became commonplace. Lala Deen Dayal’s camera captured what was there.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta26 Aug 2026
For a railway employee stationed in Maharashtra’s Akola, Jalgaon or Manmad, seeing a doctor can mean travelling two to three hours to the Divisional Railway Hospital in Bhusawal.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna26 Aug 2026
For nearly a century, camera lenses across India recorded revolutions, famines, gods and gullies.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta26 Aug 2026
A small carnivore with a deep chocolate-brown coat, reddish-brown forequarters and a distinctive yellow-to-orange throat, the Nilgiri marten is found only in the Western Ghats.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani26 Aug 2026
What if the food on our plates could travel directly from farms to families? One Chennai entrepreneur is building that bridge by helping farmers grow, sell and earn sustainably.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani26 Aug 2026
Somewhere behind a bathroom wall, under a kitchen sink or inside a toilet tank, water could be escaping right now — one quiet drop at a time.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta26 Aug 2026
Six hours from Mumbai, Ayra Farms sits on 4.5 acres of ancestral land in Guhagar, Maharashtra. Today, its cottages, gardens and trails offer guests a slower way to experience the Konkan.
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