Jakhni is a small village in the Mahua block of Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, that turned itself from a drought-hit, migration-hit hamlet into India’s first self-declared “Jal Gram” (water village) — reviving... Read more »
Kokrebellur (also spelled Kokkare Bellur) is a small village in Karnataka’s Mandya district where thousands of spot-billed pelicans and painted storks nest directly on trees inside people’s backyards, and where villagers have... Read more »
In the dry, undulating landscape of Ahmednagar district (now Ahilyanagar), about 87 km from Pune, sits a village that most maps would otherwise overlook. Ralegan Siddhi has a population smaller than many... Read more »
Twelve years after it last hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2014, Glasgow has thrown open its doors again. On the evening of Thursday, 23 July 2026, the XXIII Commonwealth Games officially began... Read more »
In the Makhdumpur block of Jehanabad district, barely a few kilometres from the pilgrim town of Bodh Gaya, a village Dharnai, that most of India had never heard of until a decade... Read more »
In the folds of the Shimla district, far from the crowded malls and honking traffic of the capital, lies a village that most travel brochures never mention — Maraog. It is the... Read more »
In the Sabarkantha district of northern Gujarat, roughly 90 km from Ahmedabad and 80 km from the state capital Gandhinagar, sits a village that has quietly rewritten the rulebook on what rural... Read more »
In the region of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, Hiware Bazar (also spelled Hivare Bazar or Hivrebajar) is a name that rarely appears on tourist maps but is spoken about with admiration in... Read more »
Tucked away on the outskirts of Bhuj in the Kutch district of Gujarat lies a village that shatters every conventional image of rural India. Madhapar isn’t defined by dusty lanes and modest... Read more »
When people picture wealth in India, glittering skylines like Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex or Gurugram’s business towers usually come to mind. But scattered across the country’s heartland are villages that quietly outshine many... Read more »