The Better India

It took days of waiting by a frozen lake in Russia, but for 14-year-old Kesshav Vikram from Coimbatore, one perfect click of a bear and a gull has carried his vision to London’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025.

After losing her mother-in-law, Surbhi Yadav transformed sorrow into sustainability—repurposing vintage bottles, lanterns, and fan parts into planters that now host over 300 plants on her terrace in Meerut.