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Nature

The Master of Murals

Shaikh Ayaz

The discovery of a handscroll by Benodebehari Mukherjee offers fresh insight into his early career devoted to nature

Ramveer Tanwar: Eco Cleanser

How one man’s campaign to restore ponds is making a difference

View from the Ground Floor

A tree watcher’s epiphany

The Many Tongues of the Forest

Sheela Tomy’s novel tells the stories of the land and its people. She speaks to Open about bringing the Western Ghats alive in fiction

Creatures’ Comfort

The beauty of species that inhabit our coastline

The Lightness of Dissent

Shilpa Gupta’s immersive works interrogate censorship and celebrate language

Daily Heroes

Three documentaries—about pioneering women journalists, brothers who rescue birds, and the lookalikes of Bollywood stars—are getting international recognition

Trunk Call

A casual look at the elephant kingdom will teach us how to live

The View from the Summit

The dividends of beauty, family, friendship and 25 years of life in the hills

The Roots of Hallucination

Consciousness-altering plants in the cultural history of India

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