People of the great delta who gave Asia its first Nobel laureate and founded a country for their mother tongue, the Bengalis turned language into identity.

Strung around the great Taklamakan desert, the oasis towns of the Uyghurs gave rise to a Turkic-Muslim civilization of trade, music, and faith. This is their story, from the Silk Road to a difficult present.

High on the greatest plateau on earth, the Tibetans built a civilization saturated with Buddhism, where faith and homeland became almost impossible to separate.

One in six people on earth is Han Chinese. This is the story of how a civilization built on a shared script, a reverence for family, and an ancient dream of unity became the largest people in the world.

The Malayali people of Kerala, their Dravidian language, the ancient spice trade, religious coexistence, social reform, the Kerala model, Gulf migration, and a rich performing-arts heritage.

Driven from the plains into the mountains of southwest China, the Miao carried an unwritten history in their embroidery and crowned their festivals in silver.

From Ebla and Palmyra to the Umayyad caliphate and the tragedy of the modern war, the story of one of the world’s oldest and most resilient peoples.

A people of the Caucasus with a language unrelated to any other, an alphabet of their own, an ancient faith, and the oldest winemaking tradition on earth. The story of the Georgians, their golden age, their dark centuries, and their unbreakable culture of hospitality.

Sustained for centuries by faith and the sacred memory of a battle lost at Kosovo, the Serbs rose from empire to subjugation to freedom, and their long memory became both their strength and their tragedy.

The Kashmiris of the Himalayan valley, their Dardic language, ancient Sanskrit and Buddhist learning, the ideal of Kashmiriyat, exquisite crafts, and the long tragedy of the Kashmir conflict.