Stories from every pin code
Retired engineer Mahesh Chandra Bora and his daughter, Nisha, founded Elrhino in Assam to turn elephant and rhino dung into handmade paper and stationery, creating rural livelihoods while offering an alternative to wood pulp.
Aditi Rao4 min read
For generations the craft passed only from father to son. With fewer sons staying, master artisans are rewriting the rule.
Meera Pillai1 min read
Between the dinner rush and the late-night orders, riders gather in a borrowed classroom for ninety minutes of conversation practice.
Aditi Rao1 min read
VideoTwo years of weekend work by 300 volunteers cleared tonnes of debris and brought water back to a forgotten baori.
Meera Pillai1 min read
Five rooms, a 40,000-litre rain tank and a rooftop solar array: how one family built a guesthouse that has never needed the grid.
Meera Pillai1 min read
In nine years, Dr Nandini and Dr Prakash Murmu have screened more than 60,000 people and arranged over 7,000 cataract surgeries.
Aditi Rao1 min read
Farmers borrow a kilo of seed and return two after harvest. A simple rule has saved varieties that had nearly disappeared.
Kabir Sethi1 min read
Innovation
Aditi Rao4 min read
Changemakers
Aditi Rao2 min read
Innovation
Arjun Deshmukh1 min read
Health
Aditi Rao1 min read
People quietly fixing problems in their own neighbourhoods.
After 34 years on the same route, Bhagaban Mallick swapped letters for library books. His canvas bag now carries novels, textbooks and newspapers to eleven villages.
Aditi Rao2 min read
Forty women who once could not get a technician to visit now fix solar pumps, lights and inverters across 60 villages.
Aditi Rao1 min read
Water, forests, waste and climate, told through the people working on them.
Desilting, a ring of check dams and a strict village rulebook brought back a lake that had been dry for most of the last two decades.
Kabir Sethi2 min read
Stories with video from the field.
Frugal engineering and homegrown ideas that solve real problems.
Retired engineer Mahesh Chandra Bora and his daughter, Nisha, founded Elrhino in Assam to turn elephant and rhino dung into handmade paper and stationery, creating rural livelihoods while offering an alternative to wood pulp.
Aditi Rao4 min read
Farms, villages and the economies that keep them going.
Farmers borrow a kilo of seed and return two after harvest. A simple rule has saved varieties that had nearly disappeared.
Kabir Sethi1 min read
What began as jars sold to tourists is now a brand that ships across India, and keeps young women in their villages.
Meera Pillai1 min read
Crafts, monuments, food and the people keeping traditions alive.
For generations the craft passed only from father to son. With fewer sons staying, master artisans are rewriting the rule.
Meera Pillai1 min read
VideoTwo years of weekend work by 300 volunteers cleared tonnes of debris and brought water back to a forgotten baori.
Meera Pillai1 min read
Care that reaches people where they live.
In nine years, Dr Nandini and Dr Prakash Murmu have screened more than 60,000 people and arranged over 7,000 cataract surgeries.
Aditi Rao1 min read
Classrooms, libraries and second chances.
Between the dinner rush and the late-night orders, riders gather in a borrowed classroom for ninety minutes of conversation practice.
Aditi Rao1 min read
Places worth the journey, and the communities that host you.
Five rooms, a 40,000-litre rain tank and a rooftop solar array: how one family built a guesthouse that has never needed the grid.
Meera Pillai1 min read
