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Imbibe•Issue 10

Infinite Hearth

Nishi Chawla offers a mythic, borderless vision of home, moving across worlds and ancestral lines. Her poem gathers indigenous and nomadic voices into an enduring hearth where survival, persistence, and shared memory keep the fire of belonging alive.

BY Nishi Chawla

Imbibe•Issue 10

Home Beyond the Door

Home as an ever-widening expanse: from rooms to forests, mountains, and the more-than-human world.

BY Jennifer Nandi

Imbibe•Issue 9

Under the Skin of Silence

A season of grief, and how loss moves through memory, breath, and the body's rhythms.

BY Krittika Sharma

Imbibe•Issue 9

How Stories Arrive: Geeta Ramanujam on Listening

Reflective listening as the heart of every tale, shaped by a lifetime of storytelling.

BY Ramya Reddy, Rupali Goel

Imbibe•Issue 7

The Dawn of Bear Island

Sloth bears in a rewilded corner of Kotagiri, and coexistence practised through guavas, open fences, and attention.

BY Gayatri Ganesh

Imbibe•Issue 6

A World in Every Whiff: The Dog’s Olfactory Journey with Sindhoor Pangal

An excerpt from Dog Knows on a dog's extraordinary nose, enrichment buckets, and slow, sniff-led walks.

BY Sindhoor Pangal

Imbibe•Issue 5

Turning Trash into Triumph: The Unyielding Spirit of Samantha Iyanna and Clean Coonoor

Clearing culverts and a river, and turning Coonoor's decades-old dumpyard into a garden.

BY Ramya Reddy

Imbibe•Issue 5

Of Renewal Through Nourishment

Learning to cook for herself at thirty, a mother's Monday dal, and the women who went without.

BY Amrita Amesur

Imbibe•Issue 2

A Tale Of Two Birds & Tulu Mushroom Gassi

Monsoon mushroom hunts at an ancestral home near Mangalore, a folktale of two bird brothers, and a recipe for gassi.

BY Saritha Hegde

Imbibe•Issue 10

Of Letter Boxes, Boxes and Forest Homes

The unmaking of a workplace-home becomes a meditation on attachment and departure.

BY K Srilata

Imbibe•Issue 8

Co-Becoming: The Human-Dog Kinship

Forty thousand years of becoming together, India's free-living dogs, and what the animal mirror shows us.

BY Sindhoor Pangal

Imbibe•Issue 7

Roots and Resilience: A Conversation with Vanya Orr

A return to ancestral Nilgiris, a village that had forgotten how to dream, and years of healing land and people.

BY Ramya Reddy

Imbibe•Issue 7

Mountains and Meaning: Journeys of the Body and Soul

From the whiteness of Antarctica, a reflection on why we climb: the summit outside, and the one within.

BY Olaf Willoughby

Imbibe•Issue 6

Foraged Feasts

Low tide on an island shore: clams traded for crabs, oysters roasted on the wharf, and a tradition under threat.

BY AJ Mallari

Imbibe•Issue 5

The Path of the River – Towards Renewal

Tagore's river that becomes the sea, an awakening after cancer, and renewal as a kind of shedding.

BY Malati Mukherjee

Imbibe•Issue 3

Foraging – In Forests And Beyond

Tender tamarind leaves, Bathukamma flowers, and a vanishing thatching grass: foraging as memory, and how to begin.

BY Shruti Tharayil

Imbibe•Issue 1

Simple, Sublime Garden Radish on a Plate of Gratitude

Garden radishes, salted butter, and sea salt on sourdough: the French way, and a small meditation on eating simply.

BY Ramya Reddy

Imbibe•Issue 10

In the Shade of My Grandfather’s Tree

Sun-warmed oranges and salted gooseberries carry the taste of a home lost to fire, but never forgotten.

BY Hoihnu Hauzel

Imbibe•Issue 10

All Roads Lead to Home: Arundhathi Subramaniam on Homecoming

Home as longing and return, and belonging found in cities, ancestry, travel, and the self.

BY Arundhathi Subramaniam, Ashna Ashesh

Imbibe•Issue 7

The Healing Mountains: In Conversation with Dr Dorjee, The Tibetan Medicine Man

Sowa Rigpa, Himalayan herbs, and a Tibetan physician on why healing begins with an open mind.

BY Malati Mukherjee

Read•Issue 6

The Alchemy of Photography

Photography as alchemy: learning to see, the edge between order and chaos, and what AI adds to the mix.

BY Olaf Willoughby

Imbibe•Issue 6

Clay and Consciousness: A Journey into the Sense of Touch

A blindfold at the potter's wheel, and learning to let touch, not sight, lead the conversation with clay.

BY Namrata Baruah

Imbibe•Issue 5

Dig No Further: Renewing the Soil and the Self

Cardboard, compost, and no-dig beds in the Nilgiris, and a gardener renewed alongside her soil.

BY Gayatri Ganesh

Imbibe•Issue 3

A Guide to Thoughtful Gifting

Rose bushes, pottery classes, and handwritten notes: gifts chosen with thought, and with the planet in mind.

BY Ayush Kejriwal

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Infinite Hearth

Home Beyond the Door

Under the Skin of Silence

How Stories Arrive: Geeta Ramanujam on Listening

The Dawn of Bear Island

A World in Every Whiff: The Dog’s Olfactory Journey with Sindhoor Pangal

Turning Trash into Triumph: The Unyielding Spirit of Samantha Iyanna and Clean Coonoor

Of Renewal Through Nourishment

A Tale Of Two Birds & Tulu Mushroom Gassi

Of Letter Boxes, Boxes and Forest Homes

Co-Becoming: The Human-Dog Kinship

Roots and Resilience: A Conversation with Vanya Orr

Mountains and Meaning: Journeys of the Body and Soul

Foraged Feasts

The Path of the River – Towards Renewal

Foraging – In Forests And Beyond

Simple, Sublime Garden Radish on a Plate of Gratitude

In the Shade of My Grandfather’s Tree

All Roads Lead to Home: Arundhathi Subramaniam on Homecoming

The Healing Mountains: In Conversation with Dr Dorjee, The Tibetan Medicine Man

The Alchemy of Photography

Clay and Consciousness: A Journey into the Sense of Touch

Dig No Further: Renewing the Soil and the Self

A Guide to Thoughtful Gifting

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