The Jingle Trucks of Pakistan
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2018
A typical Pakistani truck driver spends more time with his truck than he does with his wife. Which explains why he wants his 10-ton six-whee...
The Ramree Island Crocodile Massacre
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2018
That night was the most horrible that any member of the motor launch crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black sw...
Riverside: The Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2018
James Tiberius Kirk— Star Trek fans will recollect—was the youngest captain in the Starfleet history, who boldly lead the starship USS Ente...
THUMS: California’s Secret Oil Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2018
Not too far off the coast of Long Beach, California, are a set of four artificial islands containing towering white buildings set amidst pal...
Why Dogs Can’t Stand ‘The Cave of Dogs’
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2018
In the west of Naples, Italy, is a large volcanic area called Phlegraean Fields filled with craters of old, extinguished volcanoes. Lying mo...
The Postal Stones of Madagascar
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2018
About 2 km off the coast of Madagascar, in the Bay of Antongil, is a small, uninhabited, tropical island called Nosy Mangabe. The island is ...
Henderson Island: This Uninhabited Island Is The World’s Most Polluted
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2018
The remote island of Henderson—a tiny dot in the South Pacific Ocean—lies approximately halfway between New Zealand and Chile. It is one of ...
The Library That Stands On Two Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2018
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has two different addresses. If you are American, you’ll say the library is located at “93 Caswell ...
The 30,000 Keys of Baldpate Inn
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2018
In 1913, American novelist Earl Derr Biggers penned a comedic mystery novel titled “Seven Keys to Baldpate”, that became so famous that it i...
The Great Raft of The Red River
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2018
Before the arrival of the Europeans, “log jams” formed by the accumulation of fallen trees and driftwood on rivers and streams were a common...
