Mann Ki Baat · 26 April 2026
Episode 133 featured wildlife recoveries from Kutch's flamingos to Chhattisgarh's blackbuck, villagers living alongside elephants in Uttar Pradesh, a monastery forest in Karnataka, bamboo entrepreneurs across the North-east, and India's best showing at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad.
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Place · Rann of Kutch, Gujarat
After each monsoon, lakhs of flamingos arrive in the Rann of Kutch to nest and raise their young, turning the area pink and earning it the name "Flamingo City". Locals call the birds "Lakha ji ke baraati", and they have become a symbol of conservation in Kutch.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Terai region, Uttar Pradesh
Teams of villagers in Uttar Pradesh's Terai who watch over elephant herds that come near villages at harvest time and warn people in good time, reducing conflict between people and elephants.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Place · Chhattisgarh
Blackbuck, whose numbers in Chhattisgarh had fallen sharply, are roaming open fields there again thanks to sustained conservation work.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Place · Karnataka
A monastery in Karnataka set within about 100 acres of living forest, where more than 700 native trees have been preserved.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Tripura
Two bamboo entrepreneurs from Gomati and South Tripura districts who seized the chance created when bamboo stopped being treated as a tree in law in 2017. Using new technology, they now make more, and better, bamboo products than before.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Dimapur, Nagaland
A team in the Dimapur area making bamboo furniture and handicrafts, part of a wider wave of bamboo enterprise in Nagaland that includes self-help groups producing bamboo-based foods.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · near Gangtok, Sikkim
A team near Gangtok that makes handicrafts, incense sticks, furniture and interior decor from bamboo.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group
Shreya Mundhra of Mumbai, Sanjana Chacko of Thiruvananthapuram, Shivani Bharat Kumar of Chennai and Shrimoyee Bera of Kolkata gave India its best result yet at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad in Bordeaux, ranking sixth, with gold for Shreya, silver for Sanjana and bronze for Shivani.
As described in Mann Ki Baat