India

Two years ago Israil Ansari was working as a handyman and didn’t even own a smartphone. Then things started to go crazy

Wrestling has long been a man’s sport in India. Now Vinesh Phogat is going for gold at the Olympics. Sonia Faleiro meets her as she trains for Tokyo

Daniel Knowles, The Economist’s Mumbai correspondent, finds joy in the intermingling of Hindi and English

What The Economist’s Asia news editor Alex Travelli found at the centre of the universe

The craggy mountains and dramatic valleys of Ladakh are imbued with the prayers of everyone who passes through them. Isabella Tree savours a slow trek to the Stok Valley

Travelling on an Indian passport is a nightmare. But Leo Mirani, The Economist’s news editor, finds that it forces him to go where people are pleased to see him

Having to choose from a limited number of holiday destinations can be strangely liberating

India once had, and has now lost, the greatest olfactory culture the world has ever known. William Dalrymple sniffs out the perfumiers trying to revive it