1+ day, 14+ 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…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (255+ words) On the first-floor balcony of Kerala University’s botany department, 50 square feet became a green corner filled with plants, pebbles, wind chimes, a small waterfall, and chairs. Fourth-year PhD scholar Reshma PR was studying indoor air-purifying plants, focusing on formaldehyde, a…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (889+ words) At IIT Bombay, a reflective collar can tell students whether a campus dog has been vaccinated, where it has been seen and who is looking out for it. The idea is now moving beyond the campus. In February 2026, a dog…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (432+ words) For dogs who once only knew fear and abandonment, Ananda, a safe retirement home for India’s elderly strays built by Prayas Trust in Maharashtra, is changing everything. On a quiet hillock on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, away from the haste of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (102+ words) Mumbai is cracking down on wrong-side driving. 🚦 IPS officer Satyanarayan Choudhary has launched a major traffic drive against this dangerous violation. Nearly 800 offenders are being caught every day, with 5,000+ motorists caught in just one month and around 350 vehicles seized. But…...

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,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (100+ words) Flights. Passengers. Takeoffs. That's what we see. What we don't see? The hands that move cargo at 3 AM. The technicians keeping systems alive. The cooks, firefighters, engineers—hundreds who never board a plane but make every takeoff happen with trust,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (263+ words) India's miniature paintings made kingdoms famous. Yet many of the artists behind them had been almost forgotten. Former IAS officer B. N. Goswamy spent a lifetime tracking them down and giving them their names back. Most paintings were identified by the courts…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (139+ words) Some cities are born great. Others become great because they refused to stay invisible. Navi Mumbai was always the quiet neighbour. The one people drove past on their way to 'real' Mumbai. A place you passed through, never arrived at....