Yarchagumba: The Himalayan Viagra
A parasitic fungus from the Himalayas fuels a multi-billion dollar industry.
Debt and Farmer Suicides in India
How many farmers have to die before the Indian state will see their plight?
India’s Longstanding Desire for Peace in Korea
From the Korean War that split up the peninsula to the present day, India has tried to broker peace with North Korea.
Pompeii Lakshmi: The Indo-Roman Erotic Art That Was Lost To Time
Pompeii Lakshmi, an erotic sculpture, survives a volcanic eruption and tells tales of eroticism in Indian art.
Moringa: The Super Hero of the Plant World
Pest-resistant, disease-free, low-maintenance and incredibly healthy – is Moringa oleifera the solution to global hunger?
How Ambedkar Reached Hungary’s Roma Minority
On the 61st death anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, we look at how Hungary’s marginalized Roma community turned to Ambedkarite Buddhism.
How The Past Keeps Nokia Afloat
The man who helped give Finland the world’s first universal adult franchise also co-founded it’s most well-known company – Nokia.
Sinking of the PNS Ghazi
A sunken Pakistani submarine teems with marine life in the Bay of Bengal – and continues to tell new tales.
How The Amur Falcon Was Saved
In 2012, up to 140,000 Amur falcons were killed while migrating through India. The killings have since declined.
Shapurji Saklatvala: Britain’s First Communist MP
The first communist in the British Parliament was an Indian Parsi from a powerful family of industrialists.
Graffiti: The Historic And Provocative Art
As long as humans have known to draw on walls, they’ve used them to express the taboo, the uncomfortable and the eternal.
The Rise of the Global Sand Mafia
In India and across the world, you can get killed for standing in the way of the illegal sand mafia.
How Padmavati Demonstrates India At Its Worst
Why is a Medieval legend being used to justify murder?
The Dutch Spy Who Revealed The Passage To India
“Day and night my heart yearns to see strange countries… something to talk about when one is old.”
Saving The Silent Valley
Poets, activists and scientists came together to save Kerala’s oldest evergreen forests from being submerged.