"We were driving on a road—little more than a dirt track with large pot holes—the car’s headlights…
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The thirst of this mountainside is insatiable. Day or night, the rain comes in all tempos. Furiously…
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When Rahul Rajagopal—@cycling_nomad on Instagram—calls me from Thane, Mumbai, I’m not surprised to see a cycle in…
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We—the monkeys and I—began our relationship on a bad note. In January 2020, I made a partial…
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In my mid-20s, when I decided to embark on reading German writer Thomas Mann’s novel, The Magic…
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‘There’s nothing in nature that is not enthralling, but what fascinates me the most are birds: their…
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‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather,…
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Kodaikanal is a place where time flows backwards, where time retracts, inch by inch, reversing its flow…
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Earlier this year, in an unusually bracing March chill that kept dusting the ridges of Landour with…
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In these books from the hills of Nagaland, Sikkim, and Darjeeling, the glory and fury of rain…
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