
YADAHALLI, India — It is a monsoon morning, which means torrential rain, breaking a dry spell that has persisted since a brutally hot summer. My family...

This summer I returned to Yadahalli, where 18 generations of my family have lived in a 300-year-old house. It will be my last visit to the...

Drowning Farms A flooded dam means washed-away farmland for a Southern Indian village. Appearances, however, can be deceptive. Submerged in the water, which is essentially the...

YADAHALLI, India — It is barely dawn in my home village and the cowherd has already brought fresh milk into the kitchen (cows and water buffalo...
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