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Swapping office work for the herding life, Adham finds a sublime freedom in the rugged terrain of the Pyrenees ...

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Radhika Iyengar is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura and Esquire (India), among others. She is the author of Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the ...

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