
Stories about the overlooked, from Himalayan trails to a villa in the Kerala hills. By a journalist who left the noise.
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Munsiyari, Uttarakhand. Near the Indo-Tibetan border. The last stop of Season 3.
A 12-hour shared taxi ride in a Bolero crammed with 15 people. A homestay run by village women who took back the work of hosting strangers. Kamla, who refille...
The first time one of these turned up tucked into a food delivery bag, handwritten, with a little smiley, it made me smile back. Someone had taken the trouble. Someone had sat in a hot kitchen at the end of a long day and written a small ki...
Six men. One buffalo. A rope.
I am six years old, and no one knows I am watching.
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I have found a gap by the wall, far enough that the adults have...
Triund, Himachal Pradesh. I was about to turn thirty, alone on a mountain in the Indian Himalayas, in a snowstorm that lasted through the night.
I had come up to be by myself. To not celebrate. To let the day pass quietly, the way I though...
Kugti, Himachal Pradesh. 16,600 feet. April.
I was walking up to a sacred mountain pass with Gaddi shepherds and 800 sheep, when a freak snowstorm came — the kind no one in those mountains had seen in April for years.
The sheep scattered....
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I left the noise to pay attention to what's overlooked, in mountains, in places, in how we live. This is where I tell those stories.
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