After an exhausting and enormous amount of travel — 18 hours by plane and seven by car — we arrived on the other side of the globe from Yakima in Surat, India, a town of 8 million people that you ...

Mehr Singh is a food and culture reporter based in New York. Her work appears in Bon Appétit, Food52, and other publications. On a breezy evening in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2022, moments before ...

You’re invited to your first Indian wedding, and you’re not quite sure what to wear. Dressing for the many vibrant functions of a multi-day Indian celebration can feel overwhelming—especially if ...