The Cost of Growth in India
Article from The New Yorker online about coastal erosion in South India. An accompaniment to the print article from the previous week. Be sure to also check out the accompanying slide show. S. Manavalan, the South Indian postman I wrote about for this week’s issue, has a thing for fish. He grew up by the […]
Letter from Tamil Nadu: Rush
My article on the East Coast Road and the changes it has brought, published in The New Yorker (behind a paywall) What happens when a big road meets a small village? It was early on a summer day, the sun was still soft, and traffic was thick on the East Coast Road, in the South Indian village […]
Crosscurrents
My review, in The New York Times Book Review, of Crossing the Bay of Bengal, Sunil Amrith’s excellent new book. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in migration, environmental history, the Tamil diaspora, or the multicultural worlds that border the Bay. CROSSING THE BAY OF BENGAL: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes […]