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Issue 11 | Indigenous: An Introduction

BY Ramya Reddy

Yangdol

Excerpts from Yangdol on a Ladakhi girl's world of mountains, sheep, and the snow leopard she longs to see.

BY Pankaj Singh

Service Before Self

Combat in Northern India's mountains, reflective stillness, and lessons learned through listening.

BY General Rajan Ravindran

The House by the River

A gentle fiction of music, memory and mourning unfolds through rivers, ragas and inheritance, carrying within it a deeper sense of planetary grief and our responsibility to those who come after us.

BY Parvathi Nayar

Craft in South India: A Legacy at the Crossroads

Bronze, stone, and wood in South India, and whether the children of craftsmen will carry the work forward.

BY Deborah Thiagarajan

Blue Sky Kingdom

Excerpts from Blue Sky Kingdom on a family's months in a Zanskar monastery, and a way of life awaiting the road.

BY Bruce Kirkby

Issue 7: An introduction

Mountains as mirror and muse, from the Himalayas to the Western Ghats, in Issue 7 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

Never Never Land

An excerpt from Never Never Land: autumn in Kumaon, a white crow, and mountain gods losing patience with humans.

BY Namita Gokhale

The Blue Remembered Hills

BY Meher Mirza

Art & Adam

An art therapist, a refugee boy in the Blue Mountains, and paper, clay, and water as a way back.

BY Prabhu Viswanathan

Effortless Grace

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

BY Jenny Pinto

The Road Rose To Meet Me: A Conversation With Dr. Deenaz Damania

A Coonoor psychotherapist on grief, a late-life move to the mountains, and choosing to keep changing.

BY Sharanya Manivannan

We Come From Wind

BY Monisha Raman

Issue 10 | An Introduction

On the places that shape us: the ones we're born into, and the ones we build.

BY Ramya Reddy

A Sacred Drift Called Bhoomi

Stories of farmers across southern India, debt, drought, and a personal return to her grandfather's land.

BY Latha Menon

Issue 9: An introduction

Attention, presence, and the art of truly listening, in Issue 9 of the journal

BY Ramya Reddy

A Fabric called Interface

Goa's grinding-stone songs, and the child brides, widows, and farmers who still carry them.

BY Heta Pandit

The Hollow Tree, Bombay Shola

A short fiction of a father, a daughter on the eve of boarding school, and a two-hundred-year-old tree in the fog.

BY Sohail Rekhy

Life in the Times of the Neelakurinji

Three decades of kurinji seasons in Kodaikanal, and the shrinking grasslands the blue bloom depends on.

BY Lathika George

Journeys Across Hills

Walking the Nilgiris with her father, then Kodagu alone, in search of a Kodava heritage slipping away.

BY Kaveri Ponappa

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

Okra – From Roots to Table

From a grandmother's garden in Chennai to gumbo and podi chips: okra's long journey, and a taste acquired late.

BY Nikhita Venugopal

Gathering Courage: Tending, Mending and Finding My Way Back to Life

Inherited grief, two life-threatening illnesses, and the slow, stubborn work of making a life.

BY Madhura Srinivas

Love in the Blue Mountains

Eleven years with cancer, and the Kotagiri rains, fires, and sunsets a couple held on to.

BY Prabhu Viswanathan

The Shape of an Irula Home

A look at the traditional homes of the Irula community in the Nilgiris, shaped by land, seasons and ways of living, and changing under modern development.

BY Jeyanthi R

Chennai: Voices from a City

Chance encounters, inherited stories, and buildings that carry memory, in a life shaped by place.

BY V.Sriram

Etched in Stone: Rock art of Ladakh

Ladakh's rock art, and nature as an active participant in our stories, beliefs, and belonging

BY Ahtushi Deshpande

Broken By Bread

Corn, wheat, and a search for belonging in New Mexico, where the story turns out messier than it seemed.

BY Janaki Ranpura

Writing About The End of The World, One Flower At A Time

A once-in-twelve-years kurinji bloom in Coorg, and the pull between lament and ode for a vanishing landscape.

BY Urvashi Bahuguna

Of Peaks and Pilgrims

In Tenzing Norgay's footsteps up Everest, and the reverence Sherpas hold for Chomolungma and her goddess.

BY Jamling Tenzing Norgay

The Alchemy of Loss: A Short Journey in Mountain Time

After a separation, a return to the Nilgiris, where mountain time turns the keenness of loss into love.

BY Ashna Ashesh

Issue 8: An introduction

The bonds that tie us to people, places, and the more-than-human world, in Issue 8 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

Between Falling and Rising

An Odissi dancer, a knee that gave way mid-performance, and the slow return to a changed body.

BY Swati Prasad

Ground Beneath My Feet

On the roots within us: early memories, the selves we buried, and the work of re-membering.

BY Shivranjana Rathore

Theatre Practice in the Pandemic

Empty theatres, a loss of faith, and a personal manifesto for making performance with more care.

BY Deepika Arwind

A Mountain In A Pocket

A monk who carries the mountaintop beneath his robes, and small ways to keep the hills close from far away.

BY Sharanya Manivannan