The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is ... It’s a set of sea lanes, which the powerful monsoon winds made possible for Indian seafarers to traverse, either westwards ...

His new book is "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The ... And this means that, uniquely, in India, you have the monsoon winds, which blow in one direction six months of the year ...

Henry Fountain, a Times climate reporter, and Saumya Khandelwal, a photographer, traveled across India to examine the causes and consequences of the changing monsoon. Maps by Zach Levitt and ...