The Wise Indian Desk

The Wise Indian is an independent digital publication sharing stories that inspire, ideas that matter, and people who shape India. We cover people, society, culture, business, technology, sports, and the changing India through thoughtful and credible storytelling.

Government Schools Lost 86 Lakh Students in Two Years. They Gained Five Lakh Teachers in the Same Period

The UDISE+ 2025-26 report shows an almost exact transfer to private schools. The interesting number is what happened to teaching staff while it was happening. Government school enrolment in India fell by nearly 86 lakh between 2023-24 and 2025-26. Private

India Banned Sugar Exports in May. By August It Was Importing Sugar Duty Free

Disease and rainfall did damage the cane. Two policy levers moved more sugar than the weather did, and both are pulled in Delhi. The official reason for rising sugar prices India is the crop. Red rot and top borer hit

Beypore Still Builds the Uru Without a Blueprint. Fewer Than Fifty Craftsmen Are Left to Do It

The method survives. The customer, the timber and the vessel itself do not, and the application filed to protect the craft is still pending. A Beypore uru takes between one and four years to build. The yards sit on the

Mumtaza Begum’s Flock Grew From 50 Ewes to 500. A Government Scheme Handed Her the First Fifty

The Bandipora farm is usually reported as a start from nothing. Earlier Kashmir reports and the district sheep husbandry office describe a subsidised unit. Bandipora sheep farming has a poster name, and it is Mumtaza Begum. She keeps around 500

One in Four Booked Therapy Sessions Is Never Attended. The Number Comes From One Company’s Booking Records.

The figure covers about 6,000 bookings on a single benefits platform. That makes it useful to employers and misleading as a national statistic. A report published in May 2026 found that 26.6 percent of employees who booked a counselling session

AI Built Disaster Plans for 75 Gram Panchayats. Another 2.5 Lakh Have None

A company used artificial intelligence to map flood and heat risk in three districts. A risk map tells you who is exposed. It does not tell you when the water is coming. Seventy five village councils in India now have

Dario Amodei Asked AI Labs to Pace the Frontier. Sam Altman and Elon Musk Said He Is Right

Three rival AI chiefs agreed on a speed limit within a day of each other, and none of them said who outside their own industry gets to enforce it. On 12 September, Anthropic’s chief executive Dario Amodei published an essay

Bittu Tabahi cleaning the polluted Ajnar River in Madhya Pradesh

Bittu Tabahi: The 21-Year-Old Who Took on a Polluted River in Madhya Pradesh

Surendra Singh Choudhary, known online as Bittu Tabahi, spent months cleaning the garbage-choked Ajnar River in Biaora with his own money, basic tools and little institutional support. What began as a personal effort has now brought him national recognition and

The New EPF Rules Let You Take Out 100 Percent. That Still Means Only 75 Percent of Your Money

The Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 2026 replaced thirteen withdrawal provisions with three. The two figures in the headlines describe the same rule. Search for the new EPF withdrawal rules 2026 and you will find two different numbers. Some reports say

Savita Punia Has Played 319 Matches for India. In 2011, a Bus Fare Almost Ended Her Hockey Career

India’s goalkeeper came out of the 2026 World Cup one match short of the national record. She told the story of the bus stand herself, in Amstelveen. In 2011, Savita Punia stood at a bus stand with two bags and

The Wise Indian Desk

The Wise Indian is an independent digital publication sharing stories that inspire, ideas that matter, and people who shape India. We cover people, society, culture, business, technology, sports, and the changing India through thoughtful and credible storytelling.