A birdwatching trip in the India–Bhutan border, featuring Mandarin duck, elephants, rhinoceros, and rich grassland birdlife, especially the Bengal florican. Asian elephants Imagine standing in a forest where the wilderness stretches across two countries, yet nothing in the landscape demarcates a border. Manas National Park, in Assam, India, merges seamlessly into Bhutan’s Royal Manas National Park, together forming one of Asia’s most remarkable transboundary wilderness landsc

More than a thousand years ago, ideas, faith, and temple traditions sailed across the Bay of Bengal from southern India to Southeast Asia. Specifically, historians have written about the connections between southern India and the ancient Champa Kingdom of Vietnam. The Cham kings built temples at My Son (pronounced mee-sun ) in Vietnam to worship the god Shiva, similar to the ones in Tamil Nadu and other parts of southern India. Early Champa inscriptions were in Sanskrit, writ

Explore the history of the Armenian Church in Old Dhaka and the Armenian merchants of Armanitola, and their lasting impact on the city’s trade and education. Armenian church When I was working in Bangladesh, I travelled widely across the country. I was based at Dhaka, the capital, a city where history hides in fading façades, old courtyards, and even street names. One morning, while wandering through the narrow lanes of Old Dhaka, replete with rickshaws and a web of electric