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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.

Did the Government Call E20 Petrol an “Experiment” in the Supreme Court? Here Is What the Record Shows

The claim spread quickly at the end of June, though the Attorney General’s office denied it the next day. At the end of June 2026 a claim about E20 petrol moved fast across Indian social media. The government, it said,

He Was Told He Was Too Short to Be a Doctor. The Rule That Blocked Him Changed Seven Years Later

Ganesh Baraiya won his own case in the Supreme Court in 2018, though the rule that had kept him out was only rewritten in July 2025. In 2018 a committee looked at a young man from Gorkhi village in Bhavnagar

Most Children Take Something That Is Not Theirs. Very Few Have Kleptomania

The condition affects well under one percent of people, and kleptomania in children looks nothing like a child bringing home a classmate’s pencil. A pencil case comes home from school and it is not the one that left. The explanation

India Spent a Decade Making the B.Ed Longer. Next Year It Gets Shorter Again

NCTE will offer a one-year B.Ed from the coming session, though a Supreme Court-appointed commission had asked for the longer course. Anyone who wants to teach in an Indian school needs a teaching degree. For the past decade that degree

Two Villages Lost Dozens of People to Police Firing for Raising a Flag. Both Waited Decades for Recognition

Tarapur in Bihar and Eram in Odisha saw two of the largest police firings of the freedom movement, yet neither is widely known today. Every August the same few places return in the retelling of India’s freedom struggle. Jallianwala Bagh,

Two Wards in Alappuzha Cut Mosquito Breeding Sharply. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Show

An ICMR study recorded large falls in Aedes breeding after residents organised the work, though the figure now being quoted describes one ward. Mosquito control usually arrives from outside, as a fogging machine or a health worker with a checklist.

Women Are Now Half of India’s Higher Education. In Engineering They Are Still About a Third

The new AISHE reports put the female share of STEM enrolment at 44 percent, though science carries that figure, not engineering. India released two years of higher education data in July, covering 2022-23 and 2023-24. The headline finding was that

Nine Species Could Cover a Third of India’s Forest Carbon. A New Study Explains How

Researchers tested 160 protected animals to find which anchor species shelter the most wildlife and the most stored carbon. India’s conservation effort has long been built around the tiger. Protect the tiger’s forest, and everything else living in it stays

A Student Built a Website to Report Bribes. Five Million Requests Later, He Took It Down

Bribes.fyi collected anonymous accounts of alleged bribe demands for six weeks, then shut down and said the data would eventually go. On 2 July 2026, a 20-year-old engineering student in Delhi put a website online. It asked one question. Had

Parliament Passed Eleven Bills in Nineteen Days. Nine Went Through Without an MP Speaking.

A PRS Legislative Research note sets out how much time each Bill in the Monsoon Session 2026 got, and how little of the schedule Parliament used. The Monsoon Session 2026 ran from 20 July to 13 August. Both Houses met

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.