Osheen Chauhan

Writer, traveller, and storyteller passionate about exploring new places, discovering different perspectives, and understanding the deeper stories behind people and experiences. At The Wise Indian, she writes stories that connect, inspire, and stay with readers.

Am I Failing My Child?’: What a Paediatrician Tells Working Mothers About Daycare

Frequent illness and long hours away are the two fears that push many Indian mothers to consider quitting work. A paediatrician says both are being misread.

In Wayanad, 200 Rain Gauges and a Network of Volunteers Are Watching the Hills

A community-run rainfall monitoring system in Kerala's most landslide-prone district is producing warnings specific enough for villages to act on.

At Just 14, Yuvraj Proved That Talent Doesn’t Need an English Classroom

The Uttar Pradesh teenager's success in JEE Advanced is challenging assumptions about age, language, and the many paths to academic excellence.

How One Mother’s Autism Journey Became a Community of Hope

After her son's autism diagnosis, Neha Tandon transformed her personal experience into a trusted source of support and encouragement for thousands of families navigating autism in India.

How Ranjit Bajaj Has Kept India’s FIFA World Cup Dream Alive Through Its Young Footballers

For more than a decade, football coach Ranjit Bajaj has focused on one idea that extends beyond trophies, building young Indian footballers with the long-term ambition of seeing India compete at the FIFA World Cup. For generations, the FIFA World

The EPF Rulebook Has Been Rewritten After 74 Years. Here Is What Changes for You

The EPF Scheme 2026 replaced the 1952 framework on 29 June. For most salaried employees, the deduction stays exactly the same. The central government notified the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme 2026, along with new pension and insurance schemes, replacing a

RBI Has Finalised Its Rules on Mis-Selling by Banks. Here Is What Changes, and When

The central bank’s final directions require a full refund where mis-selling is established, ban compulsory bundling and prohibit dark patterns. They take effect in January 2027. Anyone who has taken a home loan in India has probably met the moment.

The Dropouts Kept Giving the Same Reason. It Sent Him Back to Age Three

Binayak Acharya set out to teach skills to school dropouts in Odisha and found the problem had started a decade earlier. Binayak Acharya began with skill-enhancement courses for school dropouts across Odisha, including in districts affected by left-wing extremism. The

India’s First Hydrogen Train Is Running in Haryana. The Real Test Is Economics

The ten-coach service between Jind and Sonipat emits only water vapour and heat. Whether hydrogen has a role in an almost fully electrified network is the open question. India’s first hydrogen-powered train was flagged off on 17 July 2026 and

He Spent Twenty Years Inside Oil Tanks. Now He Builds Robots to Go Instead

Captain DC Sekhar cleaned more than 150 petroleum tanks in the Merchant Navy before founding a company designed to make that job unnecessary. Twenty metres below the deck of an oil tanker, there is no daylight. There are oxygen-deficient pockets,

Osheen Chauhan

Writer, traveller, and storyteller passionate about exploring new places, discovering different perspectives, and understanding the deeper stories behind people and experiences. At The Wise Indian, she writes stories that connect, inspire, and stay with readers.