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Moksha In Skanda Vale

Omkar Khandekar

Cycling to a Hindu commune in the Welsh countryside

Such A Savage Beauty

V Shoba

From Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, seven days in seven of America’s mountain states

The Bamboo Romance

Ritesh Uttamchandani

The magic of being miserable in the Northeast

The American Scream

Tunku Varadarajan

It is a fight between the inscrutably cynical Hillary Clinton and the swashbuckling nativist Donald Trump. The unpopular may defeat the popular in the end

Nambi Narayanan: Still Waiting for Justice

Ullekh NP

More than two decades after he was framed in a false case, the Kerala government is yet to pay damages to former scientist Nambi Narayanan. Now he wants the Centre to set up a panel to reexamine the case fabricated by the state police and IB

Kanhaiya Kumar: A Suitable Boy

Kumar Anshuman

The moribund opposition desperately needs an icon and Kanhaiya Kumar mouthing old radical slogans comes handy

Whales: Death on Far Shores

Haima Deshpande

The sight of lifeless whales along the Indian coast remains a mystery

McBattle

Aresh Shirali

The burger market sizzles like never before

Organ Swaps: The Domino Chain of Life

Lhendup G Bhutia

Organ swaps are happening between numerous families simultaneously to work around the problem of long waiting lists

A Cockney Chaffinch and the Art of Birdsong

Vivek Menon

What do bird calls do to human minds? Our brains store away the aural backgrounds to our lives and when we hear strange, unfamilar sounds, we feel alienated. In this personal aural mindscape of ours, birds play a major part