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Mountain Magic

A return to the Nilgiris, tracing childhood forests, distant cities, and years of belonging.

BY Sangeetha Shinde Tee

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

Resurrection of an Erstwhile Landscape

From grassland to tea and eucalyptus, and the slow work of bringing native Nilgiri shola and marsh back.

BY Ajay Ludra

Rooting for Nature

How roots hold mountains together, store water, and sense the forest, and what being rooted could mean now.

BY Godwin Vasanth Bosco

Monsoon Musings

A short film of the monsoon indoors: library shelves, a lit fire, a drink in hand, and rain pooling outside.

BY Pranoy Biswas

A Mountain State of Mind

A short film of Nilgiri days: tea slopes, a waterfall, jacaranda in bloom, the flower market, and dusk over the hills.

BY Pranoy Biswas

The Keeper of Indigenous Memory: Remembering Janagiamma

A Kurumba healer's forest garden, her pepper and her stories, and what is lost when elders go quiet.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Blue Remembered Hills

BY Meher Mirza

A Pause for the Perfect Cup of Tea

High estates, cold nights, and winter frost: what makes Nilgiri tea so fine, and how to brew a cup.

BY Sandeep Subramani

Effortless Grace

Rolling shola grasslands, a gathering of cultures and cuisines, and long, unhurried lunches among Nilgiri friends.

BY Jenny Pinto

The Sacred Monsoon

Flowers that foretell the rains, a Toda legend of how the monsoon began, and a climate no longer keeping time.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Making of Coonoor & Co – a Teaser

A short film on how the journal came to be: notebooks, tea, scents, forest walks, and a fire at day's end.

BY Pranoy Biswas

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

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

The Voice of Vasamalli: Origins, Roots, and Life in the Toda Landscape

A Toda elder's childhood among buffaloes and sholas, the hare on the moon, and stories that must be kept.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Art of the Toda

Red and black thread counted by hand: the Toda women's embroidery, its motifs from nature, and its safeguarding.

BY Ramya Reddy

Monsoon Musings

A short film of the Nilgiris in the rains: mist over shola, the mountain train, hot tea, and old books.

BY Pranoy Biswas

Photo series: Coonoor Sunsets of Mauve, Blue and Gold

Photographs of Coonoor's evening skies, as the light turns mauve, blue, and gold over the hills.

BY Ramya Reddy