Articles

Borlaug’s Dwarfs
The plot of land where the Green Revolution began

Unholy Waters
A three-part series on the failure to clean the Ganga

The Day the Music Lived
An emergency tambura player at Woodstock

The First Family of Indian Quizzing
On the Jayakumars and the Landmark Quiz

The First Family of Tandoors
The clan – now divided – that invented the modern tandoor

The Avril Lavigne of Paschim Vihar
An unlikely YouTube star in West Delhi

Selling their Scrolls
Patua painting, television, and the global art market

Raagtime
Archives of my fortnightly Carnatic music column

The Shehnai’s Fading Lilt
A pond in Bihar, an instrument, and Bismillah Khan