Namit Arora's TEDx talk on why civic sense matters, why we Indians have so little of it, and what might raise it.

A journey to Zambia, including a national park, Lusaka, Livingstone, Victoria Falls, and more.

A journey to the shores of Lake Malawi, a lovely national park, and the capital city, Lilongwe.

A journey along the beautiful coast of Mozambique, its countryside, and its capital city, Maputo.

For our learning, natural talents, and labor, what rewards and entitlements can we fairly claim?

A documentary film about the Kumbh Mela 2013, an ancient pilgrimage festival that's by far the largest gathering of humans on the planet.

A journey to Uganda's national parks, the Ssese Islands of Lake Victoria, the source of the river Nile, Jinja, and Kampala.

A tiny village on the northeastern coast of Trinidad is home to the "so-ugly-they're-cute" leatherback turtles.

With barely a thousand tigers left in the wild, a man at a Tiger reserve in India remembers the days when "tigers abounded like stray dogs".

The seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile is in McLeod Ganj (upper Dharamsala), a scenic town in the Indian Himalayas.

The world's largest Buddhist monument located near the city of Jogjakarta on the island of Java, Indonesia.

A video slideshow on the orangutan ("person of the forest"), the only great ape outside Africa.

The greatest of the Hindu pilgrimage festivals is a riverside religious fair held every 12 years.

Scenes from the hauntingly beautiful White Desert in the eastern Sahara, with its otherworldly white chalk rocks.

Quneitra was once a bustling town in the Golan Heights ... now it is a ghost town. Scenes from my visit to Quneitra, Syria, 2001.

Wander the streets of the most energetic and cosmopolitan metropolis of Brazil.

Whirling dervishes performing at a restaurant in Damascus, Syria, 2001 (plus a titillating dinner buffet!)

He sings in a language called Pahari in the highlands of Khajjiar, Himachal Pradesh, India.

A unique annual festival of transgender people (hijras) that happens in Koovagam village, Tamil Nadu.

Photos from a journey to the Kumbh Mela 2013, the largest gathering of humanity on the planet.

The road to Dholavira goes through a dazzling white landscape of salty mudflats. It leads to the evocative ruins of a great Harappan city.

The fabled Forbidden City earned its name by being closed to everyone outside the Chinese royals and their eunuchs and maidservants.

The single most sacred site of Buddhism. It was in the forest here that Prince Siddharta sat under a tree and achieved enlightenment.

A holy city in Punjab whose historical gravity to the Sikhs is second only to Amritsar. Hundreds once embraced martyrdom here.

A day trip to the Pushkar camel fair that attracts over 250K visitors from India and abroad.

Once an extension of the Arabian Sea, the Rann has been closed off by centuries of silting. During Alexander's time it was a navigable lake.

Bhimbetka was a center of human activity from the lower Paleolithic times—the oldest paintings are believed to be 12,000 years old.