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Do you know how Sikhs greet each other? They say “Sat Sri Akaal.” As a boy I was told that means “Truth is Eternal.” It is the most philosophical of greetings. The priestly explanation for it is that it refers to the divine as both true and timeless. But I also hear in it a […]

You can’t spend time in India, in person or online, without seeing it. It is everywhere. Amul Butter rules. With roughly 85% of the Indian butter market, it is not merely a butter brand. For hundreds of millions, it is the butter. Browse the endless street-food videos on YouTube and you’ll hear vendors proudly tell […]

On the trail up Mount Longonot, dust lifts in small golden sighs beneath your boots. Acacia shadows stretch and shrink with the moving sun. Somewhere below, Lake Naivasha glints like a dropped coin. Then you reach the rim and find yourself staring into a vast, silent bowl, green and deep. You sense that this old […]