Meera Iyengar writes on the classical canon — the Gita, the Upanishads, the Dharmashastras — and what a living civilisational tradition still has to say about the choices modern India faces. Her beat is the long view: how ancient texts keep showing up inside contemporary policy debates once you know where to look.
Recent work
Kaziranga: Where the Wild Heart of India Still Beats
Kaziranga National Park in Assam is one of India's most extraordinary living landscapes — a UNESCO World Heritage Site that shelters the world's largest population of the great one-horned rhinoceros. Far more than a wildlife reserve, Kaziranga is a testament to India's civilisational instinct to protect, revere, and coexist with the natural world. This article explores its history, cultural soul, and what every traveller stands to discover there.