In collaboration with Hands of Transition, a community-led initiative working across India on food and climate futures You hear it first at the table. Someone cuts open a mango, takes a bite, pauses, and says (almost apologetically) that it doesn’t taste the same anymore. Not worse, exactly. Just thinner. Quieter. As if something has been left out. In the Konkan, this pause carries weight. This is a region that has been watched, tasted, and lived in for tens of thousands of years. Its memory...

In collaboration with Hands of Transition, a community-led initiative working across India on food and climate futures When a country houses over a billion people, a few hundred Gods, and the climatic expanse that resembles numerous parts of the globe, you learn a little about faith and a bit more about gambling. Say you’re tucked into a tiny town in India, perhaps Mumbai. You stand on the turf, shuffling your feet in anticipation, surrounded by tension and chatter. Then, you take a nice,...