Walkover
In 1974, India boycotted the most consequential tennis tie in its history. It was a moral victory, but it took its toll.
Stories akshaya has worked on
Reels
The changeover that revolutionised the Indian movie theatre, and the projectionists who watched it happen.
Smashed
How Prohibition came to Andhra Pradesh, and how it’s going.
Banger
An oral history of ‘Mundian To Bach Ke.’
Succession
Evolutionary ecologists keep finding new species in the Western Ghats. Here’s how it happens.
Whitewater
Exactly thirty years ago, an Indo-Japanese contingent set off on an audacious rafting trip on the Brahmaputra.
Asylum
A brief history of the Tezpur mental hospital through epidemics, wars and partitions.
Madras Check
What it’s like to grow up in one of the chess capitals of the world.
Labels
It’s shopping season, and you’re buying the same thing over and over again.
Kamla
She was shunted out of the history of India’s most prestigious business school. On her birth centenary, a researcher redresses the record.
Gallops
Name, place, animals: the things that keep horse racing alive in India.
Powder
From an English chemist to YouTube cooks via refugees from Rawalpindi, how custard changed India’s sweet tooth
Puppies
A dog’s life in Gurgaon? It’s not for everyone.
Power
An open letter to the Supreme Court changed the way many Indians thought about women’s rights. The rest should be history.
The Woods
One man’s quest to save a Nilgiris forest, and how it changed Indian environmental law.
Accord
From the jungles to the negotiating table, a short history of India’s longest-running insurgency.
Shift
A personal history of how the internet came home, became magazine fodder, and changed a life
Milk
For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.
Kingdom
Aristocrats, enigmatic wives, and spymasters in the drama of Sikkim’s merger with India
Collision
Twenty-four years ago, two burning planes plunged into the mustard and cotton fields of a Haryana village. It changed the way we fly