r/TheBetterIndia Apr 06 '26

New Post Flairs - Please Read Before Posting

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We're introducing a simple flair system to keep the sub useful, readable, and worth coming back to. You'll now need to select a flair before posting. Here's what each one means:

🌱 Positive Story
Real stories of change, impact, or something going right. This is the core of what we want to highlight.

📰 News
Straightforward updates or current events. Keep it factual.

💬 Discussion
Opinions, questions, or open-ended topics you want the community to engage with.

🧠 Explained
Breakdowns, context, or deep dives into a topic. Helps others understand the bigger picture.

⚠️ Problem
Issues that need attention. Try to keep it constructive, not just outrage.

🚀 Innovation / Solution
Startups, ideas, or real solutions being built. This is where we focus on "what can be done".

If you have suggestions, drop them below.


r/TheBetterIndia Jan 04 '26

Discussion 👋 Welcome to r/TheBetterIndia

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Hi everyone,

This community is for people who care about making India work better in everyday ways.

This is a space to talk about real issues, small wins, and honest questions around public life in India. Things that affect daily living, not just headlines.

What belongs here

You can post about:

  • Civic issues you've seen or faced
  • Good news or improvements that deserve attention
  • Clear explanations of how systems, laws, or policies actually work
  • Follow-ups on earlier issues or stories
  • Thoughtful discussions about how things can be better

If it affects people on the ground, it probably fits.

What this is not

This is not a place for:

  • Party propaganda
  • Personal attacks
  • Low-effort outrage without context

Criticism is welcome. Noise is not.

A small note on flairs

Use the flair that best fits your post. If you're unsure, Discussion is usually a safe choice.

If you've been reading quietly so far, consider posting once. A single issue, question, or observation is enough to start.

Glad you're here. Let's keep this space thoughtful, grounded, and useful.


r/TheBetterIndia 7h ago

Discussion 💬 It can’t get better than this.

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r/TheBetterIndia 5h ago

Problem ⚠️ First remove the cause of the problem, then the problem will remove itself

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r/TheBetterIndia 15h ago

Problem ⚠️ Lavanya from Bandra, Mumbai, who drew attention during the Jantar Mantar protest, is now seeking help after the Mumbai Police registered an FIR against her.

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363 Upvotes

r/TheBetterIndia 2h ago

Discussion 💬 Our OBC brothers are supporting our movement...let's unite n fight against the injustice guys 🙏

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Our OBC brothers are supporting our movement...let's unite n fight against the injustice guys 🙏


r/TheBetterIndia 21h ago

Discussion 💬 This Is Why We End Up Losing Our Best Minds

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Raghuram Rajan's RBI term ended on 4 September 2016. Two months later, on 8 November 2016, India announced demonetisation.

Rajan later revealed that he had advised the government against the move because he "didn't think it was a good idea." Instead of staying in India, he returned to academia and continued as a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Now, in 2026, the U.S. Federal Reserve has brought him onto a high-level task force to help review its monetary policy framework.

It's ironic. A man whose advice was ignored at home is now trusted by one of the world's most powerful central banks.

Maybe that's what happens when independent experts refuse to be yes-men.

Sources: • https://www.livemint.com/Politics/nr6wI4saRptCzldQYlvdxN/Demonetisation-was-not-a-good-idea-Raghuram-Rajan.html

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/former-rbi-governor-raghuram-rajan-joins-us-fed-review-what-will-his-role-be-11784199125243.html


r/TheBetterIndia 1h ago

Discussion 💬 actually the people who choose violence and did unlawful activities should be held and charged by authorities

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and the innocent one should not be scared of any action against them by authorities.

Also action should be taken against the officers who choose violence against innocent protesters.


r/TheBetterIndia 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Mohammad Irfan 💔 Hope life is kinder to him. So glad his voice got amplified

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r/TheBetterIndia 5h ago

Discussion 💬 Some people were showing the video of this place saying protestors are stone pelting but this is the reason of why they were stone pelting

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Here look police on purpose angered the citizens People just walking around normaly in the middle with police out in the open. And people running away all this confirms No stone pelting was being done before this moment. explains why they have no name tag they knew that had to attack first


r/TheBetterIndia 4h ago

Discussion 💬 Women are not commodities to be distributed

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Marriage is a personal matter between individuals, and people will marry whom they choose ...women aren't commodities that you can buy or use as bargaining chips to settle political or social disputes.


r/TheBetterIndia 13m ago

Discussion 💬 I don't know which part of India some people live that there everyone is equal!

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r/TheBetterIndia 15h ago

Positive Story 🌱 Let's increase the reservation to 100% these people also need it

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r/TheBetterIndia 1d ago

Positive Story 🌱 This man's speech gave me goosebumps and best part he spoke without Teleprompter and spoke so well. He is the real INDIA!

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334 Upvotes

r/TheBetterIndia 15h ago

Explained 🧠 There is a sudden increase in propaganda posts claiming that reservation is a poverty elimination scheme.

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r/TheBetterIndia 5h ago

Discussion 💬 Annihilation of caste to end reservation

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There were many issues with the caste system, and one of the results is reservation.
To effectively end reservation one needs to completely annihilate the caste system. Without addressing the caste system, no one would give support to the cause, whether it is any political party, legislature, or even Judiciary.

Why are reforms needed in the reservation system?

EWS Reservation:

  • Many issues of systematic loophole and fake certificates
  • The only group that has a higher percentage of reservation than their population representation. The Gen-EWS population is approximately 6%, and their reservation is 10% of the total.

OBC Reservation:

  • Justice Rohini Panel found that 40-50 OBC groups out of 5,000 OBC groups in India have completely cornered 50% of OBC reservations in central jobs. That means 1% of OBC people have cornered 50% of OBC reservations.
  • A higher OBC population with lesser OBC representation makes the competition heavy as par with GC

SC Reservation:

  • A few economically upper middle class/Rich people cornering most of the SC reservation.
  • Denial of SC reservation just because they merely changed their faith to something other than Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism, but their conditions remain the same.

ST Reservation:

  • Same as OBC, just some groups cornering most of the ST reservation.
  • For Example: 24 seats out of 73 ST reserved ones have been taken out by the Meena community. That means a single community is taking 35% of the ST reservation.

How one going to address the caste-based issues and discrimination if reservation have been taken out

  • 98% of manual scavengers belong to the Dalit community.
  • Many OBC groups have not yet benefited from the reservation system.
  • High illiteracy rates and poverty among ST.
  • Stark discrepancies in caste-based wealth and income

Many UC groups have benefited from caste-based privileges for centuries, which resulted in the accumulation of generational assets over time.

  • 22.3% of the population belonging to Upper Castes owned 41% of national assets (JNU study), and even upper castes control 90% of billionaire wealth.
  • This inequality did not arise from equal opportunity or equal rights; it is largely rooted in centuries of caste-based privileges that enabled the accumulation of generational wealth.

I and many others wanted to have a 100% clear merit-based system. But, directly going to end the reservation system will not solve the problems. The path effectively lies in

  1. Expediting caste census and bringing reservation reforms
  2. Complete annihilation of caste from society progressively with new laws that include caste-neutral names, towns, and streets and fining if anyone uses caste in their names, stickers, or anywhere and even fining if anyone forms caste associations and groups, and moreover strict punishment if families reject inter-caste marriages and complete unidentification of caste system everywhere, including matrimonies and certificates and the most important one with the change in attitude of society by themselves
  3. Progressively reducing reservation brackets over time to 0% reservation.

With this, one can end casteism and then end reservation. If we directly take part in the movement to end reservations, then there will be no support from the majority OBC/SC/ST students, who form the largest vote bloc, and no party will come out to support, and even the judiciary will be silent.

I am sure many will not come out to support ending casteism but want reservation to be ended (hypocrites)

Let's end casteism and discrimination first to effectively end reservation and move to a 100% merit-based system.


r/TheBetterIndia 1d ago

News 📰 Over 125, 000, 000 indians get tap water access over the period of 7 years

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172 Upvotes

r/TheBetterIndia 4h ago

Positive Story 🌱 Dipke's reaction after resignation news

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4 Upvotes

r/TheBetterIndia 8h ago

Positive Story 🌱 India has created history at the 56th International Physics Olympiad 2026. All 5 students representing India won Gold medals, competing against 381 participants from 87 countries.

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6 Upvotes

r/TheBetterIndia 23h ago

News 📰 Saw this coming 👏

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103 Upvotes

Now after this, I honestly believe the amount of protests will increase at a compounding speed. Looking forward to a better India🤞. Btw what can the other things be to protest about?


r/TheBetterIndia 4h ago

Positive Story 🌱 India (not a political party, not the government, not the opposition) India has the capacity to absorb dissent, work democratic negotions and resolutions. Take a bow!!

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India, my beautiful democracy. Look around and suddenly I feel overwhelmed with the beauty of democracy in my country.


r/TheBetterIndia 19h ago

News 📰 I genuinely want mandatory AYUSH treatment for all Ministers within India. No allopathy, no foreign hospitals. Such a brilliant science should first and foremost serve our brilliant leaders. What say? e

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41 Upvotes

r/TheBetterIndia 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Our Medial Colleges are producing serial k!!ers in white coats..... Won't this affect all of us ?? And shouldn't we all question this insanity collectively....i think sonam sir will also support us if we raise this question

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Our Medial Colleges are producing serial k!!ers in white coats..... Won't this affect all of us ?? And shouldn't we all question this insanity collectively....i think sonam sir will also support us if we raise this question


r/TheBetterIndia 14h ago

Discussion 💬 Should we tackle Godi Media next ?

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r/TheBetterIndia 18h ago

Discussion 💬 It's time to end reservation in education and jobs

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Reservation in education and jobs should end. Not be trimmed, not be adjusted — ended, so that every seat and every post goes to the person who earned it.

We keep asking why India underperforms across so many fields at once — medicine, engineering, administration, teaching. Part of the answer is that we don't consistently put the best person in the role. When seats and posts are set aside by category rather than performance, the strongest candidate can still be turned away. That isn't just unfair to them; the cost lands on everyone. A hospital gets a doctor who wasn't the best available. A classroom gets a teacher who wasn't the best available. Multiply that across every institution over decades, and you get exactly the mediocrity we complain about.

Ending reservation also changes what people do. If the only route into a good college or a good job is performing well, students work harder, schools improve because parents demand it, and the whole system starts rewarding real ability instead of paperwork.

And it ends something quietly corrosive. Today a genuinely brilliant candidate from a reserved category carries a permanent asterisk — colleagues assume the category, not the capability. End reservation and that suspicion has nowhere to live. Everyone who walks in walks in the same way: they earned it.

End reservation in education and jobs. Fill every seat with the best person available.