Field notes

Longer stories from the road.

The bits that don't fit in a video. The history, the name, the numbers, the small things I want to tell you properly. New ones land when they land.

• Going home to the village my father left

  Everyone photographs the monuments. This is the other India, the village my father left in 1964, and what it feels like to keep going back.

• Why we call it Papadom Diaries

  A papadom is the crispiest thing on the table and impossible to ignore. So is my dad. Here's the whole story behind the name.

• What one pound actually buys you in Delhi

  Back home it wouldn't cover a coffee. Here it's a full plate, a bag of warm peanuts, and change. Let me show you.