# The Indus

> One deeply reported, beautifully illustrated story from the Indus basin, every week.

The Indus publishes one deeply reported story every week, about the people, places and ideas of the Indus basin.

Publisher: The Indus (https://theindus.org/). Contact: hello@theindus.org. Language: English.
When quoting, please cite the story title, author and URL.

## Stories

- [The River Remembers](https://theindus.org/story/the-river-remembers/): The Indus has wandered across its plains for millennia, abandoning towns and feeding new ones. We followed its old beds from the mountains to the sea to ask what a river remembers.
- [Brick by Brick](https://theindus.org/story/brick-by-brick/): Long before modern planners drew their first grid, a city on the Indus laid straight streets and covered drains. What can a 4,500-year-old city teach the ones we are building today?
- [Salt Range](https://theindus.org/story/salt-range/): Deep inside a mountain of pink salt, generations of miners have carved tunnels, mosques and a living. A portrait of work underground.
- [Sun on the Water](https://theindus.org/story/solar-tubewells/): Across the plains, farmers are swapping diesel pumps for solar panels. The economics, and the aquifers, are changing fast.
- [Monsoon Ledger](https://theindus.org/story/monsoon-ledger/): In the villages of lower Sindh, farmers keep careful notebooks of every rain. Their records are becoming a climate archive no satellite can replace.
- [The Last Boatmen](https://theindus.org/story/the-last-boatmen/): For centuries a community of fisherfolk lived on wooden boats on a great freshwater lake. As the water changes, so does the only life they have known.
- [Ledger of the Fields](https://theindus.org/story/ledger-of-the-fields/): Mobile wallets are reaching villages that never saw a bank branch. What happens when credit follows the crop?
- [Silk & Scree](https://theindus.org/story/silk-and-scree/): Along a highway cut into the world’s youngest mountains, traders, truckers and teahouse owners keep an ancient route alive.
- [Ajrak](https://theindus.org/story/ajrak/): Indigo, madder and a carved wooden block. Inside the workshops where a textile becomes a signature of identity.
- [Classroom in a Pocket](https://theindus.org/story/classroom-in-a-pocket/): A cheap phone, a patchy signal and a determined teacher. Inside the experiments reshaping how children learn.
- [Kitchen Atlas](https://theindus.org/story/kitchen-atlas/): A map of a city drawn in breakfast stalls, late-night grills and the families who have run them for four generations.
- [Mother Tongues](https://theindus.org/story/mother-tongues/): In the high valleys, a language spoken by a few hundred thousand people has no relatives anywhere on earth. Meet those writing it down.
- [Platform Number One](https://theindus.org/story/platform-number-one/): Railway stations built for an empire now carry the hopes of a hundred million passengers. A journey through their brick and iron.
- [Code Bazaar](https://theindus.org/story/code-bazaar/): From small-town bedrooms, a generation of freelancers is quietly selling software to the world. Who are they, and what do they want?
- [Glass Houses](https://theindus.org/story/glass-houses/): Above the villages, glaciers are melting into lakes held back by ice and gravel. Communities are learning to live beneath them.
- [After Midnight](https://theindus.org/story/after-midnight/): At the shrines, music begins when the city falls asleep. A night with the singers who carry centuries of poetry in their voices.
- [First Light](https://theindus.org/story/first-light/): Why a magazine about a river? Our founding essay on the civilisation, the people and the ideas that grew along the Indus.

## Blog

- [Why we publish once a week](https://theindus.org/blog/why-weekly/): Slow journalism in a fast feed: the thinking behind one deeply reported story every week.
- [How we commission our illustrators](https://theindus.org/blog/commissioning-illustrators/): Every story gets an original artwork. Here is how we brief, pair and pay the artists behind them.
- [A guide to pitching The Indus](https://theindus.org/blog/pitch-guide/): What we look for, what we don’t, and how to send us the story only you can tell.
- [Letters from our readers, volume one](https://theindus.org/blog/reader-letters/): Corrections, memories and arguments: a selection of the mail that arrived this season.
- [Inside our fact-checking desk](https://theindus.org/blog/fact-checking/): Every number, name and date is checked twice. A look at the process that keeps our stories honest.
- [Bringing stories across languages](https://theindus.org/blog/translations/): Some of our best reporting begins in Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto or Balti. On the art of translating it.

## Series

- [Indus/Lens](https://theindus.org/series/indus-lens/): Stories of innovation, shaped by the river.

## About

- [About The Indus](https://theindus.org/about/)
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