The Chambal ravines and the Grand Canyon are the same geological process at different speeds. One draws five million visitors a year. The other is officially classified as wasteland — which is exactly why it still holds the world's last wild gharials.
Mumbai's Hanging Gardens are the lid on an 1887 water reservoir that supplies 147 million litres a day to the southern city. Repairing it means dismantling the park above — and three years, four plans and two contradictory expert reports later, nobody can agree how.
Europe is a continent that is well-known for its vibrant and exciting nightlife. From Paris to Berlin, there are countless cities that offer visitors an…
There are seashells on top of Mount Everest. That single strange fact holds the whole story of India — a continent that didn't just reach Asia, but is still, at this moment, crashing into it.
Every June, one strip of India turns almost violently green while the land just over the hills stays parched. It isn't luck, and it isn't a garden. It's a 1,600-kilometre machine that spends four months wringing out an ocean.
