Monsoon Reflections showcases the many moods of human experience and of the season. It contains inspiring images of natural beauty and moving glimpses into many different walks of life, including our first long interview.
A playlist of thirteen songs for grey skies and slow afternoons, from Philip Glass to Hindi Zahra and Indosoul.
BY Pranoy Biswas
A once-in-twelve-years kurinji bloom in Coorg, and the pull between lament and ode for a vanishing landscape.
BY Urvashi Bahuguna
Flowers that foretell the rains, a Toda legend of how the monsoon began, and a climate no longer keeping time.
BY Ramya Reddy
A Coonoor psychotherapist on grief, a late-life move to the mountains, and choosing to keep changing.
BY Sharanya Manivannan
Eleven years with cancer, and the Kotagiri rains, fires, and sunsets a couple held on to.
BY Prabhu Viswanathan
Monsoon mushroom hunts at an ancestral home near Mangalore, a folktale of two bird brothers, and a recipe for gassi.
BY Saritha Hegde
A short film of the Nilgiris in the rains: mist over shola, the mountain train, hot tea, and old books.