Trop Picks: Mango
As we're coming to the end of mango season, the Tropicalist pays homage to Paul Gauguin, ill-fated chronicler of our indigenous bounty.
For the anti-maskers
An aesthetic alternative to N-95?
We need to talk about air-conditioning
What does a world class city look like in the era of climate change?
Who gets to be native in a country of immigrants?
An eminent Indian jurist turns a nation’s idea of itself upside down.
On trees
A series of meditations on trees.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 1
Trees offer lessons for a pandemic-stricken world.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 2
My favourite ever painting of a tree (yeah I’m anthropocentric).
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 3
Beyond forever.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 4
Plastic fantastic.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 5
Enter the clone army.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 6
The price of life.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 7
The free rider problem.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 8
Baby boom!
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 9
On autarky.
How to be rooted in one place, pt. 10
On plutocracy.
Trop picks: Sarracenia purpurea
Nature isn’t confined to hot places.
The Line: The Ancestral diet
Get your subaltern take on the issues of the day, while you do your ironing or whatever.
Trop picks: Phalaenopsis venosa
“We shall now describe the Aristocrats of wild plants, who convey their nobility by wanting to live only high up in trees, and never below on the ground.”
Sulawesi: Where continents collide
The most unique ecosystem in the world.
Sulawesi: Asia’s unlikely champion of free trade
Free trade has always been a guiding principle of the Asian seas.