A paradigm to describe middle class economic malaise in developed nations.

The impatiens of the subcontinent.

Neither biocentric nor anthropocentric but theocentric.

There’s nothing vanilla about vanilla.

It’s in Kashmir.

Do Indians actually worship cows?

The old definitions no longer work, although many people still cling to them.

One small flower threatens to bring down an entire ecosystem.

Why projecting naval power has become essential to China’s great power aspirations.

They weren’t Levis.

An aspirational hobby could be the solution to India’s traffic woes.

An interview with humanities teacher and author Maya Thiagarajan.

A travelogue on the southwestern Ghats of India.

On the black-necked crane.

Get your subaltern take on the issues of the day while you do your ironing or whatever.

As long as the economic paradigm of globalized free trade and regressive taxation remains the international norm, wealth may continue to concentrate in the hands of elites that have a decreasing sense of connection with (and accountability to) a society that continues to reflect less cosmopolitan values.

The original camphor was a resin of Dryobanalops aromatica, a tree native to Borneo and Sumatra and a highly prized aromatic in international trade long before the Common Era.