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A Moveable Feast

Suvir Saran discovers the world on his tongue, every dish an identity and connection, from Manhattan’s eclectic chaos to Tokyo’s measured precision

Trombones and Tabasco

Rishad Saam Mehta learns that the New Orleans Jazz Festival is the perfect end to a road trip through Louisiana, exploring Cajun towns, swamps and plantations

Far from the Venetian Crowd

Carlo Pizzati takes a day’s drive through a hidden corner of Veneto, the land of Asiago cheese and Hemingway’s North Italian novels

Roman Holiday

Summer in the Italian capital offers Debashree Majumdar moments of unexpected grace under its immortal architecture

Mystic Mountain

With more than 800 Jain temples, the Shatrunjaya hill in Palitana is considered the world’s largest such complex at its height. Priyanka Dalal goes on an ascent of faith

Panorama of the Past

New Mexico was the closest DH Lawrence came to a religious experience. Tishani Doshi says it is still there for the taking in Taos Valley where language and landscape reflect each other

The Emperor’s Redoubt

Raigad Fort, once an impregnable capital, has only the ruins of its grandeur left. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers that it is still a pilgrimage spot for those who venerate Shivaji

The Afterlife of a Maoist

Saketh Rajan is a case study in how activists, academics and politicians were complicit in glorifying a violent insurgency

From Bhopalpatnam To Boter

Maoism finds itself on the verge of extinction after a series of strategic mistakes over more than a quarter century

The Slayer of Maoism

Amit Shah’s feat of defeating the six-decade-long guerrilla movement makes him the natural inheritor of the first home minister’s legacy

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