Monsoon 2026 - Issue 07
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The cover story · No. 15

Three weeks on the pilgrim paths of the Sahyadris

Everyone we met asked why we were walking. By the second ghat we had stopped answering and started asking it back. The bus dropped us where the tar gave up, at a chai stall whose owner has watched forty years of walkers set out too fast…
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Walking into the Sahyadris
Setting out from Bhaja, 05:40 - photograph by Ila Menon
“You do not finish a walk like this.
You just stop somewhere flat.”
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No. 14

The slow train to the coast

Konkan Railway · 5,400 words
No. 13

Dunes at a walking pace

Rajasthan · 3,100 words
No. 12

Five ferries, one lagoon

Kerala backwaters · 4,700 words
No. 11

A village that closes at two

Cilento, Italy · 2,900 words
The slow train to the coast

The slow train to the coast

Eleven hours, four chai stops, one argument about window seats.
Dunes at a walking pace

Dunes at a walking pace

You cannot hurry sand. The Thar makes sure of it.
Five ferries, one lagoon

Five ferries, one lagoon

Island-hopping with the school kids and the fish crates.
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