About
A cultural intelligence publication.
Not another page of fun facts about faraway places. A place you come when you want to understand something about culture properly.
What we are
Kulture Vultures is an independent publication about why the world does what it does. We take ordinary things — a greeting, a breakfast, a piece of cloth, a word — and work out the decision underneath them.
What we cover
Five pillars: traditions, food, textiles, language and the people who keep all of it alive. Within those we run recurring formats rather than one-off posts, so the work compounds instead of scattering. Our main series is Specimens — the same human moment, held against five cultures at once.
Why we exist
Most culture content stops at the strange part. It shows you the thing, calls it fascinating, and moves on. You close the app knowing one more fact and nothing more about the world. The strange part is the doorway, not the room. Our lens explains this properly.
How we report
Every piece carries a provenance label — Field, Archive or Desk — so you know how we came to know it. No claim about a living culture goes out on a single source, and wherever possible one source comes from inside the culture described. We publish no synthetic imagery of any kind. We correct in public. Our full standards are here.
Who makes it
Kulture Vultures is written and edited by Amrita Choudhury, working from Bengaluru, India. At present that is the whole editorial team, which is worth stating plainly rather than hiding behind an institutional voice: when a piece says we, it means one person who did the reading and is accountable for it.
We would like that to change. If you want to write, photograph or fact-check for us — particularly about a culture you belong to — get in touch.
Where we are based
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. This matters editorially: a publication about the whole world, written from one part of it, has an obvious bias in what it notices and what it finds strange. Submissions are the correction for that, which is why we ask for them on every page.
How to reach us
The long version
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