Colorful Indian Street Art
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2012
Modern graffiti art is rare in India, but traditional hand painted street art is ubiquitous. From tea stall signs to election messages on wa...
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Fortune Telling Robots in India
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2012
Fortune Telling is a cultural phenomenon at all levels in the Indian society. Various types of fortune telling are popular with the urban an...
Maramadi: Bull Surfing in Kerala, India
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2012
At the annual Maramadi festival during the post harvest season in the villages of Kerala in southern India, a peculiar bull race takes place...
Jallikattu–Bull Taming Sport in India
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2012
Jallikattu or Manju Virattu is a bull taming sport played in Tamil Nadu, India as a part of Pongal celebrations usually on the second and th...
Maharajas' Express: The Most Expensive Train in India
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2011
Operating since January 2010, Maharajas’ Express is the newest luxury train of Indian Railways and easily one of the most expensive one in ...
The Great Banyan Tree
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2011
The Great Banyan Tree located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, near Kolkata, India, is the widest tree in the...
The Most Expensive House in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2010
India’s richest man, who is also the fourth richest in the world, Mukesh Ambani along with his wife and three children has recently moved in...
The Living Root Bridges of Cherrapunjee, India
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2010
The lower reaches of the southern slopes of Khasi and Jaintia hills, in Northeastern India, are humid, warm and streaked by many swift flowi...
7 Incredible Submerged Forests
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2010
Submerged forest is a term used to describe the remains of trees (especially tree stumps) which have been submerged by rising sea level. The...
The Musalman Daily – The Only Handwritten Newspaper in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2009
“The Musalman Daily”, is one of the oldest Urdu-language daily newspaper published from Chennai in India, and is probably the only one in th...
