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The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta4 Sept 2026
On the morning of 26 August, there had been no prolonged rain over the settlements along Nepal’s northern border.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani4 Sept 2026
The dosa lands on the hot tawa with a soft sizzle. Ganesh Sathe spreads the batter into a thin circle, lets it crisp at the edges and then adds a generous spoonful of butter.
The Better Indiaby TBI Team4 Sept 2026
On 26 August, catastrophic floods swept through parts of Nepal, leaving hundreds dead and thousands missing as swollen rivers tore through communities.
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta4 Sept 2026
A kayak moves into one of Pichavaram’s narrow creeks. As we go deeper, the waterway gets smaller.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta4 Sept 2026
For Sonika Bhasin, sustainability is not something she wants her children to learn from textbooks. She believes they can understand it simply by being part of everyday life.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna4 Sept 2026
For over 4,000 years, farmers across the Indian subcontinent extracted a deep blue pigment from the unassuming leaves of Indigofera tinctoria, fermenting and oxidising them in vats until colourless...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta4 Sept 2026
Ishan Pathak still remembers the moments before vultures arrived at a carcass. First, there was a brief pause over the remains.
The Better Indiaby Vidya Gowri Venkatesh3 Sept 2026
As the sun rises over the dry stretches of southern Tamil Nadu, silhouettes begin appearing against rows of towering palm trees. Some carry ropes coiled around their shoulders.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta3 Sept 2026
Old broomsticks may seem ready for the bin, but Dr Meena Singh has found a simple way to give them a second life in the garden.
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta3 Sept 2026
On 26 August 2026, five-year-old Ishara Tamang watched the flood take her mother. "My mother was swept away.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna3 Sept 2026
What actually makes a city safe for a woman to walk through? For decades, the closest thing India had to an answer was crime data — cold, incomplete, and reliant on women coming forward in the...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta3 Sept 2026
In an Indian village, a change in the behaviour of ants can mean more than it appears to. Before heavy rain, people have long watched ants carry eggs and larvae towards higher, drier ground.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna3 Sept 2026
Across India, some civil servants have faced transfers, professional setbacks or public pressure while taking difficult decisions.
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani3 Sept 2026
A glass of water can look clear and still contain contaminants that cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna3 Sept 2026
Somewhere on the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road, under a sheet of monsoon water that looked no different from any other flooded stretch of Mumbai, a pothole was waiting.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna3 Sept 2026
There is a reason no two Indian households argue about the same samosa. The pastry began its journey thousands of kilometres away, carried by Arab traders and Moroccan merchants who packed...
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani2 Sept 2026
A classroom can be an ordinary place. Rows of benches, hurried handwriting, a blackboard covered in half-erased equations, and a teacher trying to make 40 students understand the same thing in 40...
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta2 Sept 2026
A group of international Sanskrit learners was walking through the Elbsandsteingebirge, or the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Germany.
The Better Indiaby Avantika Krishna2 Sept 2026
In Shani Shingnapur, a house can stand empty for days without a locked front door. There are no padlocks on many entrances, no metal gates guarding homes, and often little more than a curtain...
The Better Indiaby Raajwrita Dutta2 Sept 2026
On 3.5 acres, Sachin Gore grows sugarcane and turmeric. But when it was time to sell, he had little choice. Middlemen took a 30 percent commission, leaving him with less.
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