The Japanese Balloon Bombs of World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2018
On May 5, 1945, Reverend Archie Mitchell took his five-month pregnant wife and a group of five children from the church, where he was the pa...
Ice Stupas: These Artificial Glaciers Are Solving Water Crises in The Himalayas
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2018
Photo credit: Sonam Wangchuk High in the Himalayas in northern India, at a remote village near Phyang Monastery in Ladakh, stands two giga...
Kamikatsu: The Town That Produces No Trash
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2018
Do you find separating trash by paper and plastic a chore? Then think about the residents of Kamikatsu, a small town in the mountains of Shi...
Ko Panyi: Thailand’s Floating Village
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2018
Aerial view of Ko Panyi, fishing village in Phang Nga Province, Thailand. Photo credit: roadlessandy/instagram In a sheltered bay in south...
Ross Island: The Ghostly Ruins of a Former Penal Colony
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2018
Abandoned colonial architecture covered with big tree roots at Ross island. Photo credit: CRS PHOTO/Shutterstock For more than eighty yea...
Transnistria, The Country That Doesn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2018
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, a thin sliver of land on Moldova’s eastern border with Ukraine broke apart from its parent c...
Yakutsk: The Coldest City in the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2018
Photo credit: Slava Stepanov There are plenty of regions in Russia that can claim to be very remote and very cold, but none as extreme as...
The Blood Stained Ceilings of Kyoto’s Temples
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2018
The Fushimi Castle in Kyoto was one of the last places of action during the “age of warring states”—a period in Japanese history, stretching...
Canaries As Poisonous Gas Detectors
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2018
This peculiar device, in the collection of the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, looks like a tiny gas chamber a movie villain w...
Makhunik: The Village of Dwarves
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2018
In a remote corner in Iran’s South Khorasan Province, near its border with Afghanistan, is a village that, until about a century ago, was in...
