Sunil Kumar is a teacher at Shahjahanpur East Secondary School, Kajrinoorpur, Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the oldest schools in the neighbourhood which lost its relevance with time. Read how this school’s reputation was revived by this teacher’s hard work.

It's been more than two years since children in Uttar Pradesh's anganwadis have been served hot cooked meals, though most other states have resumed them, post pandemic. But India's most populous state, with a high burden of malnutrition, continues to distribute dry rations. The state government has given an assurance that hot meals will be resumed from January 2023.

As prices of pulses and other food items soar, our reporters fan out to different parts of the country to ask people in villages what they are eating. Here’s what we found.

Hot cooked meals at the 189,309 anganwadi centres across Uttar Pradesh have been resumed, which is likely to benefit 8 million kids in the age group three to six years.

Leftover cloth from tailoring is being put to good use by women in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh as they turn them into doormats and sell them for an extra income.

With the monsoon season coming to an end in India, major rice producing states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand have recorded deficient rainfall. The governments in these states have begun responding to the crop losses but farmers underline that nothing short of a compensation can help them recover the losses sustained by drought-like conditions. Details here.

Abhishek Kumar Shukla allocates patches of land in his primary school in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, where girl students grow vegetables which are then used in the mid-day meals.

A primary school teacher in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh recalls an incident that is forever tied up with the memory of the festival of colours.