Better Campus

Across India, campus teams are taking their ideas beyond the classroom - helping villages manage waste, supporting menstrual health, protecting coastlines and building rural energy solutions.

While AI draws headlines, five Indian students are building AI tools for crop disease, newborn screening, smart glasses and multilingual coding support. Here’s what they created.

From compost pits to reading circles, Better Campus gathers student- and faculty-led campus stories from across India into one shared home for learning, action, and inspiration.

Odisha’s Rajat Kumar Panigrahi is a zoology lecturer by day. But when office hours conclude, he dons another role — that of a preserver of folk art and music, through his online repository Matir Kala.

When students and faculty from Azim Premji University stepped beyond campus, they worked with a panchayat near Bengaluru to rethink waste, composting, and shared responsibility through ‘Zero Waste Centre’.

Before it had a campus to call its own, Delhi University began life inside a working cinema building.

NIT Rourkela researchers have developed a hybrid renewable energy microgrid combining solar, wind, biomass, and batteries to provide stable electricity for rural Indian households.

From solar-powered pathways to compost-fed lawns, Miranda House quietly practices sustainability across its campus. Here’s a closer look at how this DU women’s college turned everyday routines into lasting environmental change.

After retiring at 60, Gopal Krishna Sharma felt restless. So, he joined Maharaja Agrasen University in Himachal Pradesh, moved into a boys’ hostel, and began a new chapter working closely with students.

Before cult films and unforgettable characters, Imtiaz Ali was a student discovering freedom through street theatre at Hindu College. From campus corridors to nukkad nataks, this is where his storytelling journey truly began.