Monument to The Conquerors of Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...
The Dead Cities of Syria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
Scattered across the vast Limestone Massif, in the northwest of Syria, between the Orontes and Afrin Rivers to the west and the Aleppo/Hama ...
Sperrgebiet: The National Park You Can’t Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area that’s been off-limits to visitors for more than a century. It stretches along the Namibian coast f...
Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...
Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...
Inside Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market: The World’s Biggest Fish Market
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
Sandwiched between Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district, in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, is a large wholesale market for fruit...
Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
During the Cold War, the US government launched a country-wide effort to prepare its citizens for a possible thermonuclear war. Children wer...
Survivor Trees Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
Every now and then, a calamity —either natural or man-made— strikes humanity and just when it appears that no living being could survive the...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 24
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith Ryan Matthew Smith’s photo series “M...
Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...
