Fort Conger: Robert Peary’s Arctic Hut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2018
In 1899, when famous arctic explorer Robert Peary reached Ellesmere Island, in Canada, he found the ruins of a hut erected by a previous arc...
The Witches’ Market of La Paz, Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2018
Along a narrow cobblestone street in an old quarter of La Paz , in Boliva, old women dressed in traditional Andean garb of colorful ankle-le...
Elbphilharmonie: A Spectacular New Concert Hall in Hamburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2018
Exactly one year ago, on January 11, 2017, a new concert hall opened in Hamburg, Germany. Like a ship on dry dock, the new glassy constructi...
Athabasca Sand Dunes
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Stretching for approximately 100 kilometers along the southern edge of Lake Athabasca, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, are some of...
The Soledar Salt Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...
Honoring Animals Used in Research And Testing
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2018
The United States’ National Academies of Sciences estimates that as many as 22 million vertebrate animals are used every year in the United...
Akademgorodok: Siberia’s Silicon Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2018
Tucked away in a remote forest of birch and pine in the heart of Siberia, 3,000 km away from Moscow, at a place where winters are six months...
The Russian Woodpecker
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2017
Anyone who listened to shortwave radio or was a ham radio operator from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s will be familiar with a sharp, repet...
The Fortified Villages of Khevsureti
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2017
Tucked away in the Caucasus Mountains in the north of Georgia, is the historic province of Khevsureti. Its men were once renowned in martial...
Britain’s Thankful Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 27, 2017
War memorials are a familiar sight in towns and villages across Britain, somberly remembering the sacrifices made by millions of ordinary yo...
