Meera Subramanian

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning independent journalist, author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis (PublicAffairs, 2015), and a contributing editor to Orion Magazine. Based on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic, she’s a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop planting perennials.

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Strange Gardens

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Alicja Wróblewska

Fall 2021 | Photography

What is beauty for? What is its source? Polish artist Alicja Wróblewska thinks about such things as she fashions fanciful sculptures, snaps photographs, and creates collages both analog and digital to explore the impact of plastics on ocean health.

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Elemental India

By Meera Subramanian

December 7, 2015 | Essays

For #VQRTrueStory, our new social-media experiment in nonfiction, Meera Subramanian reports on a changing India. Follow @vqreview to keep up with the project.

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White-backed vultures were once the most common raptor on the Indian subcontinent. In the last fifteen years, their numbers have dropped from thirty million to eleven thousand—the result of ingesting diclofenac, a mild painkiller administered to cattle, that causes kidney failure in vultures.

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian

September 9, 2015 | Reporting

Can the world's fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?

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Girls walking to school through the town center in rural Bihar, 2013. (All photographs by Allison Joyce/Redux)

India’s Golden Chance

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Allison Joyce

January 6, 2014 | Reporting

Behind the headlines of sexual violence is a culture where girls are forced into marriage and early motherhood. How will the next generation break the cycle?

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Before the recent species collapse, vultures were a vital part of India's sanitation, cleaning carcasses and, as here, scavenging human remains left at the burning ghats on the banks of rivers. (Adam Woolfi TT / Corbis)

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Ami Vitale

Spring 2011 | Reporting

Can the world's fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?

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