In Murder Under a Red Moon (Pegasus Crime, Mar.), Nagendra’s sleuth, Kaveri Murthy, is back at it in colonial India. How did this series begin? My day job is as an ecologist and university professor.

An elderly woman lies bleeding out on the floor of her ramshackle hut – an intruder turning her home inside out in search of something she refuses to surrender. As this mysterious killer discovers the ...

Humanity is migrating to cities. More than half of the world’s human population now lives in urban settlements, and by 2050, nearly 70 percent of people will live in cities, according to a report ...

Each leaf of So Many Leaves, a slim, beautifully illustrated book, introduces children to leaves of common plants and their unique features. Conceptualised and written by academics and authors Harini ...

With its thick aerial roots that grow from branches so long to eventually penetrate the ground, the banyan, India’s national tree, is a sight to withhold. A trip down memory lane comes in the form of ...

The year is 1922. Edward, the Prince of Wales, is mid-way through a rather disastrous tour of India, encountering a country where murmurs of discontent have escalated into a full-blown non-cooperation ...

Not many murder mysteries involve an element of time travel. Harini Nagendra’s first novel offers a mystery, bits of history, even a couple of heirloom recipes. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Hachette ...

Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli, teachers at Bengaluru’s Azim Premji University Image: Nishant Ratnakar for Forbes India[br]Ants are everywhere, but rarely noticed. Most people are indifferent to ...

Large swathes of wilderness alternating with pockets of urbanization may be a reality in some countries, but in India boundaries are soft. Where a city ends and where a village begins in its outskirts ...

Over a century or so ago, the city of Bengaluru managed to finally curb the plague that had broken out in the city in 1898, ravaging it for over a decade. One of the measures taken by the government ...

What drew you to this subject and what were the stark discoveries you made during your research? Floods in and around Chennai in December 2023. (ANI/PIB) The idea for the book came after discussions ...

“Where did all the animals go?” asked Miss Roberts, poking Kaveri with a bony finger. Kaveri gazed around the interior of the Maximilian Circus tent where they were seated, trying her best to ignore ...