Banning the Indian rupee notes really was dumb
The cash ban was floated in a Tamil action film, of all places, yet somehow became real policy
Focus Festival returns to Mumbai with a video from my previous exhibit
A new video includes photographs I exhibited in Mumbai two years ago
My shoot in the Sundarbans near Calcutta
Going off-road and off-grid to document an NGO’s work in West Bengal
Portraits of African elites in India 500 years ago
Who knew Africans ruled parts of India, including Bengal, centuries ago?
The New York Times shuts down India Ink
The Times gives up being local everywhere, returns to the parochial interests of a US audience
Why we still need newspapers
How a New York Times investigation of Walmart in Mexico changed the future of retail in India
Why Narendra Modi is a bad choice for India
India is too internally diverse to privilege any single group within society, but Modi will try
Indian studio portraits, 20th century
Trolling the markets of Bombay and Delhi for compelling portraits of ordinary citizens
My exhibit at the Hermès gallery in Bombay
The response was even better than I could have hoped at Bombay’s first-ever photography festival
How great is India’s magazine The Caravan?
Long form reportage, ruthlessly edited, about India and elsewhere. Now you know
An upcoming exhibit of my photographs in Mumbai, India
Prints and an unusual still/motion projection about how urban space around the world is inhabited
Wal-Mart de Mexico; or, why we need newspapers
The New York Times digs deep for a piece of great journalism. What might they do in Egypt or India?
Bal Thackeray dying in India, violence expected
Of course it is: violence is the Shiv Sena default reaction to anything they don’t like
And the winner of the greasiest palm is…
An anti-bribery website in India actually tries to answer that question
Hypnotism for Everybody by Pandit Lakshmi Doss, Chennai, India, 2004
It reflects a particularly Indian fondness for mystical possibility paired with a gift for gab
The New York Times launches India Ink
Its first ever country-specific blog, on all things Indian. Why I’ve waited twenty years for this
Philippe Petit’s new act and a Keralan puppeteer
A Keralan puppeteer, the last known practitioner of her art, performs a high wire act of her own
The strange structures off Italy’s Adriatic coast
Italy’s trabocchi fishing platforms are of mythical origin. Are they related to ones in India?
Seeing Cambodia and Indonesia on the roads of Tamil Nadu in India
There was once a Hindu empire in southeast Asia and reminders of it are everywhere in Tamil Nadu
A journey through the Khyber Pass in 1930
A journey in 1930 across the Indian frontier into Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass