by Bindu Gopal Rao | Apr 19, 2026
(April 19, 2026) Somewhere between a handwritten recipe and a map of migration, Sri Bodanapu found her calling—tracing how food carries memory, identity, and place across borders. Today, the San Francisco-based founder of Heirloom Cities is building an archive of...
by Vikram Sharma | Mar 17, 2026
(March 17, 2026) For Sudhakar Kancharla, curiosity has always revolved around understanding systems—whether it was the human body, technology, or complex healthcare infrastructure. That curiosity eventually took him from a small farming town in Andhra Pradesh to the...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 20, 2025
(July 20, 2025) He walked four kilometers each day to a neighboring village for school, his textbooks tucked under his arm, his classroom often just a patch of ground beneath a tree. His village, Panoh, situated in the hills of Himachal Pradesh, had no electricity or...
by Vikram Sharma | Jan 12, 2025
(January 12, 2025) Devangi Nishar Parekh has lived like a monk in a Shaolin Temple in China, camped in Antarctica for seven nights and made her way from Vienna to Istanbul in cars and trains, without taking flights. The more she sets out on these adventures, the more...
by Darshana Ramdev | Jan 4, 2025
(January 4, 2025) The lives of the one-percenters in the Bay Area, Manhattan and Malibu are steeped in turmeric milk, ashwagandha and the finest Darjeeling tea. As the world’s wealthiest people, who set the trends for everyone else, now start their day with...
