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Search ArticlesPart Four: The Eye of the Forest King
This is the final installment in our four-part “Intrepid Interlude” series by Hidden Compass’s 2025 storyteller in residence, Tulsi Rauniyar. Earlier this year, Hidden Compass Allies voted to assign a story series on human-tiger conflict in Nepal. In the first three installments, Tulsi explored the conflict from the viewpoint of the locals, the park rangers, and the land. Now, Tulsi widens the scope of the narrative one last time.
Part Three: When the Land Speaks
This is the third installment in a four-part “Intrepid Interlude” series by Hidden Compass’s 2025 storyteller in residence, Tulsi Rauniyar. Earlier this year, Hidden Compass Allies voted to assign a story series on human-tiger conflict in Nepal. For Part One, Tulsi explored the theme from the perspective of local residents. In Part Two, she brought in the perspective of park authorities. In Part Three, she grounds the story in a new voice.
Part Two: Chasing Tigers At Dawn
This is the second installment in a four-part “Intrepid Interlude” series by Hidden Compass’s 2025 storyteller in residence, Tulsi Rauniyar. (You can read Part One here.) Earlier this year, Hidden Compass Allies voted to assign a story series on human-tiger conflict in Nepal. For Part Two, Tulsi explores this theme from the perspective of park authorities with conflicting objectives. “Y ou brought the tigers back.
Part One: When Tigers Come Home
This is the first of a four-part “Intrepid Interlude” series by Hidden Compass’s 2025 storyteller in residence, Tulsi Rauniyar. Earlier this year, Hidden Compass Allies voted to assign a story series on human-tiger conflict in Nepal. For Part One, Tulsi explores this theme from the perspective of those sharing land with Nepal’s Bengal tiger population. When I stopped for tea, I was only seven kilometers from the attack site.
Sanctum Sanatorium
Photography and additional reporting for this story provided by Douwe den Held. For two days, we battle off-road mountain passes through the jungle. Below us, the Suárez River cuts through the green swells of Colombia’s Eastern Cordillera. The rising sun caresses the water’s surface, sending clouds of condensation into the air. Our bikes, loaded with gear for a year’s journey, slip and slide on the clay-covered rocks.
Truth is the Timeless One
At the Jalandhar train station, dead bodies littered the platform. Inside, hundreds of others hid in waiting rooms with only the clothes on their backs. The rains were late that year, and even from nearby villages, one could see smoke rising from the city. “It was summer and we slept on the roof, on charpais, and you could see that the city was burning,” recalls Khan Hussan Zia during an interview with the 1947 Partition Archive, an oral history project.
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Seaweed Queen - Hidden Compass
Summer 2024 / by Joanna Lobo Ad Free. Reader Funded. Your contribution supports our partnership with the author of this piece. On top of their article pay, 50% of all contributions go directly to this journalist. A red door leads into a dimly lit space. Inside, lanterns create pools of warm light above four tables, while bottles of sake line the shelves, and anime posters hang on the walls. The sound of sizzling meat fills the room, drowning out the chatter from outside.
France’s Forgotten Place of Memory
Ad Free. Reader Funded. Your contribution supports our partnership with the author of this piece. On top of their article pay, 50% of all contributions go directly to this journalist. Photo Essay Under a leaden sky, the Captain Cook pulls away from Saigon’s bustling colonial port, passing between long rows of painted fishing boats that rock in its wake, then gathers speed as it forges out into the South China Sea.
Shades of Defiance
Spring 2024 / by Tim Brinkhof Ad Free. Reader Funded. Your contribution supports our partnership with the author of this piece. On top of their article pay, 50% of all contributions go directly to this journalist. Techno music pounds through the cavernous halls of Lukiškės nightclub in the center of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.