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On 25 March 2010, in a hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, Sheeja gave birth to her daughter, Sandra. Within hours, doctors delivered a diagnosis that would reshape the next sixteen years…

For years, Devaki Amma’s days began in the paddy fields of Muthukulam, a coastal village in Kerala’s Alappuzha district. Farming was the rhythm of her life, work she had known…

When 20-year-old Rasiya Banu first picked up a DSLR camera, she was terrified. Growing up in Vyasarpadi, a working-class neighbourhood in North Chennai, she had become accustomed to hearing outsiders…

This shop looks like any other neighbourhood sweet seller on Netaji Subhash Road in Howrah. Whitewashed walls, a squeaking ceiling fan, wooden benches and a glass case stacked with kalakand…

Saat Mod, or “seven bends”, is a short, shaded stretch of National Highway 7 between Bhaniyawala and Rishikesh in Dehradun district. For years it was little more than a bend…

At his factory in Raigarh, then part of Madhya Pradesh, Naveen Jindal began flying the Indian Tricolour from his office premises in the early 1990s. It was a simple expression…

His father served 28 years in the Indian Army. Gaurav Shukla (36), never made it past the selection process himself. A decade later, he has built an organisation that quietly…

The scholastic saxaphones are getting louder, but Dr. Cheyenne Bryant is clapping back at “jealous envious haters” on another trend taking over social media. Source: Robin L Marshall/Getty Images /…