Meditation in the Mountains: The Palani Hills’ Bodhi Zendo by Kartikeya Jain Five thirty am. It’s pitch black outside. Only frogs croak in the dark undergrowth. Suddenly, a bell…
Sowing the Future by Reena Raghavamoorthy A wave of nostalgia swept over me as I walked through the serene campus of Kodaikanal’s Sacred…
Snakes, On A Different Plane by KAMINI GOPAL If you love reptiles and reading, there’s a good chance you’ve read Snakeman by Zai Whitaker. Published…
The Ghost of Good Work in Wayanad: How the Gadgil Commission Tried to Save the Western Ghats by Siddhartha Krishnan The world is facing a climate emergency, and on 31 July 2024, the people of the Nilgiri…
The Green Queen of Spices: Cardamom’s Future in the Western Ghats by Sharmila Vaidyanathan In a tiny nook in my kitchen lies a small packet whose contents are firmly secured by…
Voyages through Vatta by Sumanto Mondal In 2010, as our semester drew to an end, my college gang was eager to vacation off…
Sky Islands Awarded Grant by Shared Ecologies Murugeshwari, a writer based in the Palani Hills, with Kamakshi Narayanan, Sky…
Sowing the Future by Reena Raghavamoorthy Community/Environment A wave of nostalgia swept over me as I walked through the serene campus of Kodaikanal’s Sacred…
Voyages through Vatta by Sumanto Mondal Community In 2010, as our semester drew to an end, my college gang was eager to vacation off…
Hidden Spaces: Inside Kodaikanal’s Solar Observatory by Kartikeya Jain Community P Manikandan, or Sathish, assists scientists with valuable record-keeping at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO). Following in…
A Slow Walk Through the Nilgiri Hills by Sneha Thomas Community ‘Smell this,’ Anne directs, crushing a leaf from a cypress hedge and placing it in my palm.…
Sowing the Future by Reena Raghavamoorthy Community/Environment A wave of nostalgia swept over me as I walked through the serene campus of Kodaikanal’s Sacred…
The Ghost of Good Work in Wayanad: How the Gadgil Commission Tried to Save the Western Ghats by Siddhartha Krishnan Environment The world is facing a climate emergency, and on 31 July 2024, the people of the Nilgiri…
Rewilding in God’s Own Country: The Little Flower Farm Story by Reena Raghavamoorthy Environment To enter the 7-acre expanse of Little Flower Farms is to experience life in the lush forests…
Think Like Moss: Lessons in Ecology from the Forest Elders by Richa Kaul Padte Environment/Culture Ever heard the saying ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’?…
Meditation in the Mountains: The Palani Hills’ Bodhi Zendo by Kartikeya Jain Culture Five thirty am. It’s pitch black outside. Only frogs croak in the dark undergrowth. Suddenly, a bell…
Snakes, On A Different Plane by KAMINI GOPAL Culture If you love reptiles and reading, there’s a good chance you’ve read Snakeman by Zai Whitaker. Published…
The Quieter Life: Slow Living in the Mountains by Nilanjana Roy Culture The first time I spent a few weeks on my own in a small Kumaoni village near…
Komorebi by Tanmayi Gidh Culture My fingertips feel the soft, damp touch of the moss, spread in clusters across the weathering brick…
The Green Queen of Spices: Cardamom’s Future in the Western Ghats by Sharmila Vaidyanathan Food In a tiny nook in my kitchen lies a small packet whose contents are firmly secured by…
Eating into the Wild by Simrit Malhi Food For eight years, I lived right by a reserve forest teeming with wildlife in the Shola forests…
Brewing Biodiversity: The Secret of Truly Special Artisanal Coffee by Sharmila Vaidyanathan Food India's coffee scene has never been more buzzing—or more unpredictable. We speak to historians, coffee-growers, and artisanal…
The Cosmos in Your Dustbin by Neha Sumitran Food It was a warm, summer evening in Mumbai: fans were whirring, pressure-cookers were whistling, and in the…