Ramya Reddy

Issue 11 | Indigenous: An Introduction

BY Ramya Reddy

Issue 10 | An Introduction

On the places that shape us: the ones we're born into, and the ones we build.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Keeper of Indigenous Memory: Remembering Janagiamma

A Kurumba healer's forest garden, her pepper and her stories, and what is lost when elders go quiet.

BY Ramya Reddy

A Life Walking with Elephants: In Conversation with Prajna Chowta

Life as a mahout, a pregnancy shared with her elephant Kunti, and the shrinking space left for the wild.

BY Prajna Chowta, Ramya Reddy

A Loosely Guided Tour of a Place Called Belonging: A House of Many Rooms

The landscapes people carry: the Indus in a raised voice, Kerala's monsoon in an umbrella, a godwit's flight home.

BY Pankaj Singh

Issue 7: An introduction

Mountains as mirror and muse, from the Himalayas to the Western Ghats, in Issue 7 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

Issue 8: An introduction

The bonds that tie us to people, places, and the more-than-human world, in Issue 8 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Art of Perfume

The perfumer as shaman, cities as smells, and scent as a museum of memories that takes you home.

BY Shoba Narayan

Issue 5: An introduction

Regeneration, restoration, and the turning of the wheel, in Issue 5 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

A Pause for the Perfect Cup of Tea

High estates, cold nights, and winter frost: what makes Nilgiri tea so fine, and how to brew a cup.

BY Sandeep Subramani

The Voice of Vasamalli: Origins, Roots, and Life in the Toda Landscape

A Toda elder's childhood among buffaloes and sholas, the hare on the moon, and stories that must be kept.

BY Ramya Reddy

A Potato For My Thoughts

A new kitchen, a pan of slow-roasting potatoes, and the meals that make strangers and new rooms feel like home.

BY Sharmila Vaidyanathan

A Tale Of Two Birds & Tulu Mushroom Gassi

Monsoon mushroom hunts at an ancestral home near Mangalore, a folktale of two bird brothers, and a recipe for gassi.

BY Saritha Hegde

A Case for Slow

Slowness as balance, not retreat: Carlo Petrini, a morning run, and the right to set your own tempo.

BY Ramya Reddy

Photo series: Coonoor Sunsets of Mauve, Blue and Gold

Photographs of Coonoor's evening skies, as the light turns mauve, blue, and gold over the hills.

BY Ramya Reddy

We Come From Wind

BY Monisha Raman

Chennai: Voices from a City

Chance encounters, inherited stories, and buildings that carry memory, in a life shaped by place.

BY V.Sriram

The Old Dog in the Kitchen

BY Smriti Rana

Co-Becoming: The Human-Dog Kinship

Forty thousand years of becoming together, India's free-living dogs, and what the animal mirror shows us.

BY Sindhoor Pangal

How Stories Arrive: Geeta Ramanujam on Listening

Reflective listening as the heart of every tale, shaped by a lifetime of storytelling.

BY Ramya Reddy, Rupali Goel

The Healing Mountains: In Conversation with Dr Dorjee, The Tibetan Medicine Man

Sowa Rigpa, Himalayan herbs, and a Tibetan physician on why healing begins with an open mind.

BY Malati Mukherjee

Issue 6: An introduction

Sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch, and the worlds they open, in Issue 6 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

Confluence: A Tale of Collaboration, Chance and Creativity

Three photographers on three continents, the same five rolls of film, and triple exposures made without a brief.

BY Olaf Willoughby, Ramya Reddy, Shayne Lynn

The Path of the River – Towards Renewal

Tagore's river that becomes the sea, an awakening after cancer, and renewal as a kind of shedding.

BY Malati Mukherjee

Art & Adam

An art therapist, a refugee boy in the Blue Mountains, and paper, clay, and water as a way back.

BY Prabhu Viswanathan

Effortless Grace

Rolling shola grasslands, a gathering of cultures and cuisines, and long, unhurried lunches among Nilgiri friends.

BY Jenny Pinto

Theatre Practice in the Pandemic

Empty theatres, a loss of faith, and a personal manifesto for making performance with more care.

BY Deepika Arwind

The Sacred Monsoon

Flowers that foretell the rains, a Toda legend of how the monsoon began, and a climate no longer keeping time.

BY Ramya Reddy

A Mountain In A Pocket

A monk who carries the mountaintop beneath his robes, and small ways to keep the hills close from far away.

BY Sharanya Manivannan

Home Beyond the Door

Home as an ever-widening expanse: from rooms to forests, mountains, and the more-than-human world.

BY Jennifer Nandi

Mountain Magic

A return to the Nilgiris, tracing childhood forests, distant cities, and years of belonging.

BY Sangeetha Shinde Tee

Issue 9: An introduction

Attention, presence, and the art of truly listening, in Issue 9 of the journal

BY Ramya Reddy

Writing About The End of The World, One Flower At A Time

A once-in-twelve-years kurinji bloom in Coorg, and the pull between lament and ode for a vanishing landscape.

BY Urvashi Bahuguna

Roots and Resilience: A Conversation with Vanya Orr

A return to ancestral Nilgiris, a village that had forgotten how to dream, and years of healing land and people.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Dawn of Bear Island

Sloth bears in a rewilded corner of Kotagiri, and coexistence practised through guavas, open fences, and attention.

BY Gayatri Ganesh

A World in Every Whiff: The Dog’s Olfactory Journey with Sindhoor Pangal

An excerpt from Dog Knows on a dog's extraordinary nose, enrichment buckets, and slow, sniff-led walks.

BY Sindhoor Pangal

Turning Trash into Triumph: The Unyielding Spirit of Samantha Iyanna and Clean Coonoor

Clearing culverts and a river, and turning Coonoor's decades-old dumpyard into a garden.

BY Ramya Reddy

Dig No Further: Renewing the Soil and the Self

Cardboard, compost, and no-dig beds in the Nilgiris, and a gardener renewed alongside her soil.

BY Gayatri Ganesh

Issue 4: An introduction

What anchors and sustains us, from ancestors to ecosystems, in Issue 4 of the journal.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Art of the Toda

Red and black thread counted by hand: the Toda women's embroidery, its motifs from nature, and its safeguarding.

BY Ramya Reddy

The Road Rose To Meet Me: A Conversation With Dr. Deenaz Damania

A Coonoor psychotherapist on grief, a late-life move to the mountains, and choosing to keep changing.

BY Sharanya Manivannan

Love in the Blue Mountains

Eleven years with cancer, and the Kotagiri rains, fires, and sunsets a couple held on to.

BY Prabhu Viswanathan

Simple, Sublime Garden Radish on a Plate of Gratitude

Garden radishes, salted butter, and sea salt on sourdough: the French way, and a small meditation on eating simply.

BY Ramya Reddy