Superstition in the Age of Science
🎓 Author: Darpan Darshit Konwar 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-321 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry Why do people still believe in superstitions in a world of science and technology? To understand this question, we must first understand what superstition truly is and why it has endured through the ages. A superstition […]
A Tiny Big Threat: Microplastics
🎓 Author: Adeeba Shaheen 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-283 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry We often talk about various environmental pollutants and polluters, from large-scale to small-scale, old to new, AC to AI. In spite of that, one of the oldest and most researched pollutants, Plastic, is still untreated and underestimated […]
When the Subcontinent Burns
🎓 Author: Lakshya Shree 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-256 🏆 Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry Climate Change and the Reckoning of Modern India In February 2026, while textbooks still taught Indian schoolchildren that summer began in March, the coastal state of Goa recorded its first heatwave conditions of the year, a meteorological […]
BUY NOW! And Get One Dying Planet For Free!
🎓 Author: Vrishank Belliappa Bopanna 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-320 🏆 Category: Juniors (6–8) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry As you read this, someone just died, dozens have lost their homes, and entire communities have been pushed closer to losing everything they have ever known. Homes and lives disappear in seconds, cultures are erased, and […]
How much is a tree worth?
🎓 Author: Jiya Khandelwal 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-286 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry What is the most rare thing in the universe? Diamonds seem the obvious answer, until one considers that Neptune’s atmospheric pressure is so extreme that diamonds fall from the sky rather than form beneath the earth. Gold, […]
The Weight of Living Things
🎓 Author: Kaaviyasri Sasikumar 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-213 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry Climate, Capital, and the Physics of Our Discontent We have a habit of talking about the planet as if it were a fragile museum piece. We speak of “saving the earth” in the same patronizing tones we […]
Can India Build Without Burning?
🎓 Author: Pratyaksh Modi 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-275 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry The Climate Cost of India’s Real Estate Boom India is pouring concrete into its future but the question is whether or not it is also pouring heat in it. Across the country cranes, highways, gated communities, malls, […]
The Weather We’ve Stopped Noticing
🎓 Author: Shreyansh Goel 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-139 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry May used to mean something. When I was younger, May meant mango pulp staining your chin, ceiling fans rattling at full speed, afternoons so still that even the crows seemed tired. It was hot, it was always […]
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Fossil
🎓 Author: Joveena Marian 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-112 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry The monsoon didn’t come this year. Or rather, it came late, came violent, and left our neighbourhood in Bengaluru underwater for three days. I remember wading through knee-deep water, watching my neighbour’s ground-floor apartment flood, watching the […]
Climate Injustice: Why Do Poorer Nations Suffer More?
🎓 Author: Nivedita Bhalla 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-106 🏆 Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry Have you ever wondered why climate change is on everyone’s mind of late? Climate change, in layman’s terms, is the process of the Earth getting warmer due to various human activities, eventually leading to environmental degradation, health […]