Five baby orangutans in Odisha are peak cuteness, but this isn’t just a conservation rescue story. How they travelled thousands of kilometres, who moved them, who was waiting at the other end – points to a larger crime. Follow the trail to its source, expose the traffickers and dismantle the market.
In 2017, Shekhar Gupta started ThePrint with a simple belief: Indian readers want journalism that asks why and what next, not just what. And that enough of them would be willing to pay for good journalism.
Nine years on, that belief has held.
And, in these nine years, we’ve stayed true to our mission. We’ve been asking the follow-up questions, going beyond the headlines and explaining what’s actually happening. We’ve travelled across the country to bring you in-depth, visually-compelling stories from the ground.
It’s been nine years of readers choosing to make this possible. If you’d like to be one of them:
