Summer Slowness is all about the Indian summer. You’ll find reflections on slow living, longing for rain and for the mountains, the pleasure of scents and books – and more – in the words, images, videos and music curations that we have to offer.
Slowness as balance, not retreat: Carlo Petrini, a morning run, and the right to set your own tempo.
BY Ramya Reddy
A short film of Nilgiri days: tea slopes, a waterfall, jacaranda in bloom, the flower market, and dusk over the hills.
BY Pranoy Biswas
A playlist of ten songs for the first summer showers, from Patrick Watson and Taba Chake to Tajdar Junaid.
Dusk on the plains, the scent of petrichor, and a longing for the summer rain that once announced the heat.
BY Sharanya Manivannan
A short film on how the journal came to be: notebooks, tea, scents, forest walks, and a fire at day's end.
Photographs of Coonoor's evening skies, as the light turns mauve, blue, and gold over the hills.
A monk who carries the mountaintop beneath his robes, and small ways to keep the hills close from far away.
Garden radishes, salted butter, and sea salt on sourdough: the French way, and a small meditation on eating simply.