Essays

In the final instalment of the Time and Tide series, Tasneem Khan flies over our “Pale Blue Dot”, marvelling at how the ocean connects all the lands that humans divide. She writes in hope of a Symbiocene, a multispecies and multi-timescale future, and shares a few small steps that we can take towards creating one.

In the seventh installment of our Time and Tide series, Tasneem Khan invites us to consider how experience and knowledge are reflected, recorded, and consumed through time; in a tidal rhythm, certainty ebbs and layers of context and connection reveal themselves.

In the sixth essay of the Time and Tide series, Tasneem Khan writes of knowledge embodied in communities and coastlines, of the intimacy of repetition, attention that attunes, and practice that makes dreams real and expands horizons.

In the fifth installment of the ‘Time and Tide’ series, Tasneem Khan invites us to look through the veil that separates birth and death, beginnings and ends, into the liminal and rich ‘thin places’ and ecotones.

In the fourth essay of the ‘Time and Tide’ series, Tasneem Khan delves into the mysteries of evolutionary time, measured not in hours but in adaptations. In this piece, she explores the vagaries of imperfect evolution, and the compromises and negotiations that nature specialises in, shaped by circumstance.

In this essay, public health doctor and researcher Sylvia Karpagam writes about the unscientific classifications of foods, and their stigmatisation and weaponization in a caste-ridden society.

In the third essay of the ‘Time and Tide’ series, Tasneem Khan uncovers the delicate and rich layers of memories remembered by sediments and seabeds as time ebbs and flows.

In the second essay of the ‘Time and Tide’ series, Tasneem Khan dives into time as it moves with the bodies of oceans, in ritual and drama. She invites us to observe the waters as they breathe, each coast with its unique rhythm, and the worlds that each ebb and flow brings to the shore and carries away from it.