22+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1692+ words) On a Saturday afternoon in Kodaikanal's Kombai-Perungadu tribal settlement, a 5-year-old girl appears on a video call, her hair neatly plaited, her blue frock crisp. She offers a shy smile. "Hi! Yen per Karnika (My name is Karnika)," she says…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (104+ words) What if a petrol pump, puncture shop or even a pond could become a classroom? ❤️ For 31 years, teacher Ujjwala Wadekar has taken education beyond textbooks and four walls in Pathri, Maharashtra. Her students learn through real-life experiences, from repairing punctures…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1179+ words) In 2015, Dadarao Bilhore lost his 16-year-old son Prakash to a water-filled pothole in Mumbai. A month later, he picked up a shovel and began a mission that would earn him the name ‘Pothole Dada’. Somewhere on the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1065+ words) Imagine trying to sleep as freight trains roar past your home night after night. Delhi researchers measured 1,057 train pass-bys and are now exploring what this could mean for health. Every night, in slum clusters strung along Delhi's railway lines, families…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1461+ words) A hundred women, known as ‘didis’, now run Khowai’s waste management system. Every morning, a little before seven, Pinki Kar Deb walks down the same lane she has walked for nine years. For most of those years, this was the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (144+ words) Firefighting. Security. Terminal management. Cargo operations. At Navi Mumbai International Airport, women lead it all. Not because the airport set out to make a statement. It just hired the best people for the job. And some of the best people…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (763+ words) When Gargi Jain took charge of Chhota Udepur in 2025, she began walking into tribal girls' schools every week instead of waiting for students to reach her office. What started as informal conversations became Collector in Classroom, a mentoring programme now…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (511+ words) The Better India "When the rains arrive, a city can change within hours Roads turn into rivers, underpasses disappear under water, and overflowing drains bring traffic to a standstill Yet, just months later, many of these same cities can be…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago   (705+ words) In ‘Innovation Behind Everyday Solutions’, we look at the technology turning drones into emergency eyes in the sky — from capturing hundreds of images to creating maps that help teams understand flooded areas. When floodwater enters a village, one of the…...