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Families Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi - Eco-Friendly Idols & Decor

Looking for families who celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi a little differently! 🌿🐘 For an upcoming story at The Better India I’m looking to speak to families who make their own eco-friendly Ganpati idol every year, or create their Ganpati decorations entirely using household waste and things available at home.🤍 If this is a family ritual you follow, I’d love to hear your story — what you make, how you started, and what makes this tradition special to your family. If you or someone you know does this, please DM me or drop a comment below. I’d love to connect! 😊

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Forest Officers & Restoration Ecologists in India - Why Saplings Fail

Looking to speak to the right people for a story! Here's something most of us have done at least once: planted a sapling. At a school function, an office drive, a weekend morning. We water it, take a photo, feel a little better about the world. 🌱 But how many of those saplings ever become a forest? 🪾🌳 That's the question behind a story I'm reporting for The Better India. A new CAG audit of the Green India Mission — the country's decade-long plan to grow its forests back — found that against a target of 1.4 million hectares, barely 34,000 grew. Under 3%. The reasons are more interesting than a headline: funding promised but never fully delivered, trees planted in the easy spots instead of the ones that needed them, drives that ended the moment the photo was taken. But here's what I'm most interested in — because somewhere in India, it is working. There are villages, forest officers, and communities who've grown forests that actually survived, and I want to understand what they're doing differently, and what the rest of us can learn from it. I want to write this for an ordinary reader — no policy jargon, just an honest look at what happens to the trees we plant, and what it really takes to grow a forest that lasts. So I'd love to speak with people who work on the ground: • Restoration ecologists and foresters who can explain what turns a sapling into a forest • Forest officers, current or former, who've seen what works and what doesn't • Communities, NGOs, or villages who've grown forests that lasted and know why Three questions guide the piece: 1. What actually happens to the trees we plant — and why do so few become forest? 2. What's the difference between a plantation and a living forest, and why does it matter to our water, our heat, our monsoon? 3. Where in India is it being done right and what can we learn from the people getting it right? If that sounds like you, or someone you know, please email me at [email redacted]. I'd love to talk. 🍀 The Better India #GreenIndiaMission #Conservation #SolutionsJournalism #Forests #ClimateIndia

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Birders, Club Leaders & Guides - Birding Community Experiences

#SourceRequest #birding If you're a birder, part of a birding club or community, lead bird walks, or have built a career around birding as a guide, photographer, tour leader, educator, or in any other way, I would love to hear from you. [email redacted] https://t.co/OLHyrEHLVE

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Paediatricians & Child Development Experts - Monsoon Rain Play Myths

📢 Calling paediatricians, child health specialists, and child development experts! We're working on an upcoming story for The Better India to bust common myths around children playing in the rain — and we're looking for expert voices to feature. 🍀 Do kids really fall sick because they play in the rain? Or is that just another monsoon myth? 🌧️👧 If you can share evidence-backed insights on: • Whether playing in the rain actually causes illness • Common monsoon myths parents should stop believing • How children can safely enjoy the outdoors during the rainy season I'd love to hear from you. Please comment below or send me a DM/email ([email redacted]) if you're interested in being featured. Feel free to tag an expert who'd be a great fit! #TheBetterIndia #Pediatrics #ChildHealth #Parenting #ChildDevelopment #HealthMyths #Monsoon #ExpertCall

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India Urban Tech Founders - Future-Defining City Solutions

I’m looking for India-built, future-defining tech stories that are reimagining how our cities work. If you’re building — or know someone building — cutting-edge solutions in urban development, I’d love to hear from you. I’m especially interested in initiatives using AI, deep tech, data, robotics, climate tech, mobility innovations, smart infrastructure, waste management, water systems, housing, or public space solutions to solve real, on-ground urban challenges at scale. If this sounds like your work (or someone in your network), please email me at [email redacted] with the subject line: Future Tech – Urban Development Tag someone who should be part of this conversation. 🦸🏻♀️ Divya Sethu Naru Radhakrishnan The Better India #tech #india #urbandevelopment #innovations #journorequest

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Fathers Who Shelved Dreams - Rediscoveries Ahead Of Father's Day

Story request for #TheBetterIndia “My father wanted to be a singer. He became an engineer instead. He never talked about it. But every Sunday morning, without fail, he'd play his guitar for about twenty minutes before anyone else woke up. That was his. The one thing nobody asked him to give up — maybe because nobody knew how much it meant.” Maybe you've heard a version of that before. A lot of fathers are like this. They took the stable job over the uncertain one, moved back home when they were needed, skipped the audition because the timing was wrong, and the rent wasn't. They made their choices and got on with it. We grew up watching our fathers be responsible. Practical. But behind that reliability was often a person who had shelved something — a singer who became an accountant, a painter who opened a hardware store, a cricketer who never got the call-up and never spoke of it again. This Father's Day, The Better India wants to find those stories.💙 The father who teaches guitar on weekends because he never got to play professionally. The one who started painting again at 60 because his daughter handed him a brush. We want to hear about the sacrifices that were never announced, the dreams that were deferred but not forgotten, and the small, unexpected ways fathers are finding their way back to themselves. If you know a father with a story like this or if you are that father — Please write to me at [email redacted] with the subject ‘Father’s Day Story’🌟

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Parents of Toddlers, Young Children & Teens - Digital Detox at Home

#Parents — this one’s for you. 👇 If you’ve tried raising your kids with little to no screens, I’d love to hear your story, kindly drop a comment or DM me. I’m working on a piece around #families who are consciously choosing a more mindful, #screen-free (or screen-light) way of growing up.🤍 If you’re a parent of a toddler, young child, or teenager, and you’ve explored a digital detox at home — tell me: How did you begin the detox? What changes did you make—and how did your child respond? What’s worked for you, and what’s been unexpectedly hard? What have you discovered about your child (or even yourself) along the way? Your experiences could help shape a meaningful conversation around parenting in today’s hyper-digital world.🤖👨👩👧👦 Drop a comment, DM me, or write to me at: [email redacted] Let’s share stories that might inspire a healthier balance for the next generation. #DigitalDetox #ParentingStories #MindfulParenting #ScreenFree #RaisingKids #ModernParenting #StoryCall

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Innovation Submissions - National Frontier Tech Repository - India

Are you building breakthrough tech that’s transforming livelihoods across India? If yes, we want to hear from you. Register your innovation on India’s national knowledge platform for emerging technologies: 👉 https://t.co/hbJRQIrZon 👉 Or write to us at [email redacted] How do you turn a manual farm task that once took hours under the scorching sun into a job done in minutes? Ask the inspiring ‘Drone Didis’. Across India, these women are using agricultural drones to transform sustainable farming practices - improving efficiency, reducing labour, and earning lakhs in the process. India is home to millions of such life-changing innovations. If your solution is scalable, impact-driven, and capable of transforming governance and public service delivery, it deserves to be featured. Explore more stories of cutting-edge technologies building a better future for India on the NITI Frontier Tech Repository: 🔗 https://t.co/hJkvlB7PyO In partnership with @NITIAayog ’s Frontier Tech Hub (NITI-FTH). #FrontierTechRepository #NITIFTH #NITIAayog #TheBetterIndia #MadeInIndia #MakeInIndia 🚁🌾

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