Third Eye
Chorbagan stampede: 19 dead at a Puja pandal, and who answers
A father pulled 7–8 children out of the Chorbagan crush but lost his own son. 19 died at the Kolkata pandal. What went wrong, and who answers for it.
Feature stories
Third Eye
The truths beneath the headlines: society, power and the people living with both.
Delhi air pollution and children: the lungs that pay the price
Eleven Delhi schoolchildren took the smog to court and got their games moved. What Delhi air pollution does to children, and what is still undone.
Podcast
Voice of Youth
Honest conversations with young Indians who are building, questioning and changing things.
Now streaming · Season 2 Voice of Youth
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Ashwin Kumar on farmland, villas and owning land differently
Episode 23: the founder of Vibez Estates talks about managed farmland, branded villas across South India, and what buyers should weigh before they invest.
People
Candlelight
Ordinary Indians doing quiet, unglamorous work that changes lives, even if only a few.
- 01 What did they do? The work, told plainly
- 02 Who did it help? Even if only a handful
- 03 How can you help? Support them, or start your own
Baiga Adivasi mother · Badi Jharia, Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh Kiran Baiga, the mother who chased a leopard to save her son
Chased a leopard about 1 km into the forest and got her son back alive (November 2021)
Childline worker · Canning, South 24 Parganas Bunty Mukherjee, the Childline worker racing to stop child marriages
Stopped a child marriage in Jharkhali within hours of another being averted in Basanti, June 2020
Software engineer · Founder, Pune Ploggers · Pune Vivek Gurav’s Pune Ploggers turn jogging litter into eco-bricks
Over 100 tonnes of plastic collected by Pune Ploggers (as of September 2020)
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