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 […]
The Generation That Cannot Look Away
🎓 Author: Siddharth Arya 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-098 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry I remember the summer my grandfather told me the river near our village used to run so clear you could see the fish from the bank. Last year, I went to see it. I stood there for […]
India @ 2047: My Vision for a Developed Nation
🎓 Author: Sonakshi Singh 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-093 🏆 Category: Super-Seniors (11–12) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” On the midnight of 15 August 1947, India awoke to freedom. That historic moment was not merely the end of foreign rule; it was […]
The Climate Crisis Through The Eyes Of A Teenager
🎓 Author: Harshi Sanjay Agarwal 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-085 🏆 Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry “The Earth is speaking to humanity through melting glaciers, deadly floods, and rising temperatures—yet people continue to ignore its cries.” Climate change is no longer a hidden threat confined to our science textbooks; it’s a frightening […]
The Planet is Losing Patience
🎓 Author: Diya Gupta 🆔 Article ID: WTW-SUM26-083 🏆 Category: Seniors (9–10) ✨ WriteToWin Summer 2026 Shortlisted Entry Try to imagine or conceptualize this: a bunch of kindergarten kids drawing factories with black smoke and calling it “progress,” while trees slowly become things they only see in textbooks or in old photographs. Sounds exaggerated, right? […]