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
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 Narendra Modi is a bad choice for India
India is too internally diverse to privilege any single group within society, but Modi will try
My Bhutan video for Hermès
Moments from my journey for Hermès to the best-preserved corner of the Himalayas
Indian studio portraits, 20th century
Trolling the markets of Bombay and Delhi for compelling portraits of ordinary citizens
How great is India’s magazine The Caravan?
Long form reportage, ruthlessly edited, about India and elsewhere. Now you know
Hope or acquiescence in Myanmar?
Aung San Suu Kyi returns to politics, but is she a challenge to the junta or a cover?
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