When the Seasons Lose Their Rhythm: India’s Changing Climate

πŸŽ“ Author: Mubashir πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-770 πŸ† Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry In March 2026, farmers in northern Maharashtra were preparing for an important stage of the agricultural season when unseasonal rain damaged their crops. A preliminary assessment by the state agriculture department reported damage across 64,151 hectares, affecting more than […]

The True Price of a β‚Ή500 T-Shirt

πŸŽ“ Author: Jahanvi Sharma πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-794 πŸ† Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry The hidden cost of fast fashion There is something almost magical about a β‚Ή500 T-shirt. It can appear on a screen in the morning and be hanging in a wardrobe by evening. It can be soft, colourful, perfectly […]

How India is draining the aquifers it cannot see, and how it can stop

πŸŽ“ Author: Ujjawal Maurya πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-816 πŸ† Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry How India is draining the aquifers it cannot see, and how it can stop In 2010, the water in the wells of Ardana, a village in Karnal district, Haryana, sat about eight metres below the ground. By 2020, […]

Doomerism, Inequality and the Politics of Hope

πŸŽ“ Author: Roopkatha Dey πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-655 πŸ† Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry Last year, I found an old photograph of my neighbourhood on my grandmother’s phone. The road looked almost offensively ordinary: trees leaning over the pavement, children standing in puddles after rain, balconies crowded with clothes. She told me […]

Can Development and Nature Coexist?

πŸŽ“ Author: Harsh Kushwaha πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-783 πŸ† Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry β€œWe have not inherited the Earth from our ancestors; we have borrowed it from our children.” – Native American Proverb Look around us. Tall buildings touch the sky in Ahmedabad, highways connect distant cities, and the miracle named […]

THE EARTH WILL SURVIVE. WILL WE?

πŸŽ“ Author: Debasmita Ghosh πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-512 πŸ† Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry Long before humanity learned to name the seasons, map the oceans or measure the temperature of the atmosphere, the Earth had already mastered the art of endurance. It has witnessed continents collide, mountains rise, oceans retreat and species […]

Solastalgia and the Architecture of “Home-Sickness”

πŸŽ“ Author: Varshini πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-677 πŸ† Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry I. A grief without departure Homesickness has always been a condition of travel. There is a sense of ache as the root, and absence as what it measures and is measured by. But recently there has arisen a strange […]

WHAT INDIAN CLASSICAL ARTS TEACH US ABOUT SUSTAINING LIVING

πŸŽ“ Author: Rishika Soni πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-777 πŸ† Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry As a student of classical music and dance, I have come to understand that classical art is much more than a performance. It teaches us discipline, patience, continuity, respect for tradition and the importance of constant effort.Every movement, […]

Where Survival Becomes Self-Destruction

πŸŽ“ Author: Bhavya Agarwal πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-490 πŸ† Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry Congratulations, family planning is no longer about narrating the trajectory of your life, but about gambling your child’s entire future in a world where the odds are already against them. Dr. Randeep Guleria of AIIMS warns: polluted air […]

What the Himalayas Are Telling Us About Climate Change

πŸŽ“ Author: Hibah Arifeen πŸ†” Article ID: WTW-MON26-499 πŸ† Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Monsoon 2026 Entry Before dawn, a shepherd in the Himalayas begins his climb, following the same trail his family has walked for generations. But this year, the stream that once flowed beside the path has thinned to a trickle. Wildflowers bloom […]