It’s an autumn morning at Mawmluh Cave, near Cherrapunji, in Meghalaya’s north-eastern hills. At the entrance, 27-year-old Milton Marak switches on his headlamp, and leads a group into the darkness. There are no electric lights inside. Only the beams from visitors’ torches illuminate towering stalagmites, delicate soda straws and curtains of calcite hanging from the […]
It’s an autumn morning at Mawmluh Cave, near Cherrapunji, in Meghalaya’s north-eastern hills. At the entrance, 27-year-old Milton Marak switches on his headlamp, and leads a group into the darkness. There are no electric lights inside. Only the beams from visitors’ torches illuminate towering stalagmites, delicate soda straws and curtains of calcite hanging from the […]
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