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How the Indian Monsoon Works: Onset, Withdrawal and Why It Decides the Farming Year
How the Indian monsoon works, how IMD declares onset and withdrawal, and why it decides the farming year, with IMD...
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Plain-language explainers on the laws and schemes that shape life in India, with every figure sourced.
Understanding MGNREGA: India's Largest Employment Guarantee
What is the Right to Education Act? A Simple Guide
RTI: The Most Powerful Tool You're Not Using
India's Reservation System Explained: History, Debate, and Data
Where Does Your Tax Money Go? Understanding India's Budget
NEP 2020 Explained: What's Changing in Indian Education
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India in numbers, and the stories behind them
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Community Solutions: 7 Indian Community-Led Programmes With Measured Results, and What Each Number Really Shows
Seven Indian community programmes in water, sanitation, health, education, livelihoods and heat, each with its numbers, its source and an honest note on what the evidence can and cannot prove.
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One State One Story: a story from each state, one at a time
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