EditorialThe Dosa, center, and other South Indian delights at Semma, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Dec. 22, 2021, where “the chef, Vijay Kumar, seems thrilled to turn Manhattan on to the lush, lavish cooking of his home state, Tamil Nadu, and the region around it,” writes Pete Wells. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialAn Ola Electric factory, which makes electric mopeds, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Aug. 24, 2022. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
EditorialProduce hawker Amul Vasudevan, who was fined repeatedly for using throwaway bags, along a busy road in Chennai, India, July 7, 2022. (Anindito Mukherjee/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Matrimandir, a place for meditation, in Auroville, India, a spiritual commune founded in the state of Tamil Nadu in the 1960s, Feb. 2, 2022. (Rebecca Conway/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Matrimandir, a place for meditation, in Auroville, India, a spiritual commune founded in the state of Tamil Nadu in the 1960s, Feb. 2, 2022. (Rebecca Conway/The New York Times)