Girgaum Chowpatty beach in Mumbai (Ahmad Masood/Reuters) Nearing the midpoint of India’s Monsoon season that runs from from June to September, lack of precipitation has farmers and global futures markets worried. It is too soon to have been officially labeled [...]

American photographer Steve McCurry went to Asia on a Monsoon assignment expecting a disaster that to his surprise wasn’t as bad as thought. “[The] farmers experience the monsoon as an almost religious experience as they watch their fields come back [...]