The National Mail began with a simple observation: some of the most useful journalism in India is about people who are already fixing things. A retired postman running a mobile library. A village that brought its lake back. Two engineers who built a sensor farmers can actually afford.
These stories rarely make the front page, but they travel. Readers share them with their families, copy the ideas in their own towns, and write to us asking how to help. We exist to find more of them, report them carefully, and deliver them to every pin code.
What we cover
Changemakers, the environment, innovation, rural India, culture and heritage, health, education and travel. Our reporters and contributors work from more than a dozen states, and a good share of our best stories come from readers.