Meena Khandelwal teaches gender studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa. Iowa feels like the center of the world right now, as millions of eyes are focused on the astonishing Caitlin ...

In the north of India, Haridwar is a place of sacred geography. It is the point, notes the anthropologist Meena Khandelwal, where the holy Ganges descends from the Himalayas to meet the northern ...