Climate change is amplifying these vulnerabilities. Across the Himalayan region, weather patterns are becoming increasingly erratic. Read more

Standing beside those ancient fires, one realises that almost everything to which we attach excessive importance belongs to the realm of the temporary.. Read more

No monument stands there. No emperor built it. No marble dome rises above its steps. Yet few places on earth possess such terrible grandeur. Read more

For weeks, summer had imposed a certain languor upon Bengaluru. Afternoons felt suspended beneath a harsh and lingering light. Read more

Dwarkesh Patel has emerged as an unusually serious and consequential presence. Read more

The rise of the long-form podcast may ultimately prove to be more than a cultural or technological phenomenon. Read more