5+ day, 55+ min ago   (269+ words) This is the story of Abdul Nasar, who spent 13 years in an orphanage after losing his father at five, and went from extreme poverty to becoming a district collector. After his father died, his mother, Manhumma, worked in different homes…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (270+ words) From Nepal to Assam, floods take a devastating toll on homes and lives every year. But what if homes could rise with the water and stay safe during a flood? That’s the idea behind AmphiNest, a structure that rests on…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (344+ words) At Kisan Veer Mahavidyalaya in Wai, a two-acre mango orchard has become more than campus greenery. Its harvest now helps support students from farming families through college. On the far edge of Wai, the orchard stands beside the boys’ hostel....

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (448+ words) What if farming didn’t need fields? In Ludhiana, siblings Asthika and Shankar Narula grow authentic Kashmiri saffron indoors using aeroponics, turning a family idea into a Rs 26 lakh venture. During the COVID-19 lockdown, banker Vikas Narula began researching indoor saffron…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (641+ words) Since the mid-1980s, families in this Ernakulam village have welcomed a travelling group of singers and drummers during Onam. Each evening ends at a different home, keeping a shared community tradition alive across generations. As the evening light fades over a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1085+ words) 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, even…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (300+ words) According to long-standing craft tradition, Tamil Nadu's coastal fishermen and paddy farmers already wore hand-woven, vegetable-dyed checked cloth as everyday lungis for centuries before European traders ever noticed the fabric. Weavers cut fine muslin into 36-inch squares, block-printed them carefully…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (287+ words) 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 age should never limit adventure. In 2015, Rahul Gupta and M P Deepu…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1385+ words) Longwood Shola, one of the Nilgiris' last surviving native forests, owes much of its revival to citizens who spent decades protecting it from invasive species, illegal felling and neglect. Their story is proof that restoring forests often begins by simply…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago   (784+ words) A routine patrol in Karnataka’s Western Ghats took an unexpected turn when beat forester Ajmeer K noticed an unusual freshwater crab. His decision to look closer eventually helped scientists identify a species new to science. On a routine forest patrol…...