Cultures across the world are in a constant state of push and pull. And Jagmeet Singh's election to Canada's New Democratic Party means that peeps from the pind are on the cusp of world domination.

The Nainital of my childhood and that of my daughter’s childhood are two very different places. The waters at Naini Lake are already 18 feet below normal. Very soon there may not be a lake left.

At the end of "Mohenjo Daro", my daughter learned that ancient civilisations are full of bronze people in bizarre headgear and I learned that picking the worst actor was not easy.

Jim Corbett was haunted by jungles. When he was in the forest, he transformed into a gyaan yogi. And it was where he drew his life force from.

We are blissfully unconscious of the fact that when we leave the lights on for longer than required, our actions could cause a Himalayan black bear to manifest in someone’s garden.

High-flown language may have developed as a means of officialdom to isolate itself from common folk but thanks to our feudal hangover, we continue to embrace it in our daily lives.

A writer from Uttarakhand travels through his beloved hills and tells us how kaafal berries and wildfires have always signalled summer. What changed this year?