The Tonle Sap

by | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal

Text by Abby Seiff – Photography by Nicolas Axelrod Feb. 17, 2020 – Kampong Luang, Cambodia. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom One morning, I pulled up a satellite map of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake on my computer and clicked my way around it. The water was a...

The Last of the Koli?

by | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal

Story and Photography by Rhett Kleine By some accounts, the Koli bloodlines on the seven islands of Mumbai stretch as far back as the stone age. Their people fished the waters of Maharashtra long before Alexander’s armies reached the tip of India or Asoka’s empire...

Music and the Farmers Protests

by | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal

By Shreya Kapoor India has a rich history of musical and poetic movements that were explicitly political and iconoclastic in nature. The Bhakti and Sufi movements with prominent figures like Kabirdas, Meerabai, Basavanna, Khwaja Mouinuddin Chisti, Nizam-ud-din Auliya,...

Paradise Lost

by | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal

By John Rodsted  On a sultry Sunday afternoon, a group of people gathered in a public park for a BBQ. The BBQ was to raise money for charity.  The day was hot and humid as they built a fire on the ground. The sky was threatening with rolling clouds, ominous...

Sinking Cities

by | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal

By Daniel Quinlan I couldn’t believe it when I read that Bangkok was sinking by as much as 1-2 cm a year. At first I assumed it was a misprint and they must have meant millimeters but the same figure appeared in other stories. Later I pitched it to an editor and did a...