Pomerode: The Most German Town In Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2017
About thirty kilometers to the north of Blumenau, a city in Brazil, lies the town of Pomerode, so named because its founders came from Pomer...
Rama’s Bridge: A Bridge Built By Monkeys
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2017
In the great Indian epic of Ramayana, penned several thousand years ago, author Valmiki speaks of a bridge over the ocean connecting India a...
The Melbourne Building With A Face
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2017
Some people see faces in everything—in clouds, in the arrangement of faucets on a sink, on a power socket, and on the facade of a building. ...
The Hanging Houses of Cuenca
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2017
In the Castile–La Mancha region of central Spain, the Júcar river has carved a deep gorge as it flows through the Iberian Peninsula. Along i...
Magdalen: The Island of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
The small archipelago of Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, off the coast of the Canadian province of Quebec, is home to some 1...
Mudflat Hiking in The Wadden Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
The southeastern edge of the North Sea, along the coast from Denmark through to the Netherlands, is a shallow belt of mudflats and barrier i...
Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
More than a hundred years after Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage in 1492, a team of roughly one hundred colonists left England in late ...
Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2017
High in the Andes, in southwest Bolivia, towering above one of the highest cities in the world, stands the cone-shaped peak of Cerro Rico —t...
Giant Hand Sculptures Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2017
The other day, a pair of giant hands appeared rising out of a canal in Venice, as if to support the sides of the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. It was a...
The Ravens of The Tower of London
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
For many centuries, the historic Tower of London, on the north bank of the River Thames, has been guarded by ravens. These winged creatures ...
