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In the Austrian Alps, a mother dedicates her heart and crisper drawer to a pet tortoise, lovingly captured by her son ...

For the men and boys of the Dom community in Varanasi, sacred cremations demand a lifetime of exhausting, dangerous labour ...

Radhika Iyengar is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura and Esquire (India), among others. She is the author of Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the ...

Research suggests that people who express their gratitude more effusively are judged as lower status and less influential ...