How and why 145,000 people migrated to a small Caribbean island.

Hanging out in Kathmandu’s international airport with soon-to-be migrants.

Tracking down a far-off Nepali community.

Nomadic lives were destroyed as Sindh and Kachchh are separated by a border.

A Pakistani re-discovers Bangladesh.

Riding the rails with a beast of old.

Journeys in post-war Sri Lanka.

For a refugee, the journey rarely ends.

Haj in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Finding the soul’s centre in South India.

Feeling moved by one of the Subcontinent’s most famous pilgrimages.

Sri Pada has been a source of fascination for centuries’ worth of explorers and pilgrims in Sri Lanka.

When neighbours disapprove of a travel destination – that’s where to take the family.

Chasing what keeps people quiet.

So many places to see, so many people to meet.

Maxims and measures from bygone times.

Two humans, four dogs.

Demystifying the professional traveller.

When to use a guidebook – and when to throw it away.

The booming surrogacy industry in India is rife with unanswered ethical, economic and political questions.

Surprise negotiations with ULFA aside, the Indian government’s effort to contain and control insurgency in Assam is unlikely to meet the hopes and expectations that have energised the peace process.

…in Sri Lanka’s case, is just as undemocratic.

India-Pakistan relations can no longer be addressed without reference to Afghanistan.

A year on in Hunza, how far along the road to normalcy?

Infant deaths resulting from a recent clinical trial in India have led to a media outcry. But few have considered how explosive these revelations actually are, or the problematic use and application of the Right to Information Act.

Despite setbacks, the will to strengthen bilateral relations remained strong during Manmohan Singh’s Dhaka visit.

Domestic workers tell their stories.

A good man tarnished.

Some things have changed in Nepal for a writer revising a work 15 years later. Other things, the nicer ones, remain the same.