Poles of Beauty
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2017
An image recently published by one of my favorite blogs, Astronomy Picture of the Day, made me realize that our planet earth posses perhaps...
Checkpoint Charlie
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2017
For nearly thirty years until the end of the Cold War, Berlin lay divided both physically and ideologically by the infamous Berlin Wall that...
Ethiopia’s Churches In The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2017
The ancient Kingdom of Axum, now a part of Ethiopia, was one of the first nations in the world to adopt Christianity. The religion took stro...
How Clowns Trademark Their Face By Painting On Eggs
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2017
Every clown’s face makeup is unique, or at least, they should be, for there is an unwritten rule within the clowning community that no clown...
Toronto’s Camouflaged Electric Substations
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2017
More often than not, industrial infrastructures are an eyesore, especially when they are smack in the middle of a beautiful city like Toront...
Cultybraggan: Britain’s Last POW Camp
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2017
The Cultybraggan camp located near the Scottish village of Comrie, in Perthshire, is one of the last remaining World War 2 Prisoner of War C...
Decorating Fences With Trash, The New Zealander Way
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2017
New Zealanders have a unique way of discarding their trash—they hang them on fences. Bras, boots, toothbrushes, bicycles, everything that ha...
The Dark Legacy of Gruinard Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2017
Halfway between the villages of Gairloch and Ullapool in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, sits a small oval-shaped island named Gruinar...
Leiden’s Love Affair With Poems And Equations
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2017
Scattered throughout the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands, are over one hundred poems carefully hand-painted on the exterior walls of buil...
Chateau de Chenonceau: The Chateau Built Over A River
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2017
Château de Chenonceau, located near the small village of Chenonceaux in France, is one of the best-known chateau of the Loire valley. The ch...
The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2017
The cold hard stare of Lenin penetrating the icy air is the only thing you’ll come across the vast frozen landscape in this part of Antarcti...
The German Hyperinflation of 1923
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2017
There was a time when an average German carried billions of marks in their pockets but could still buy nothing. A loaf of bread cost 200 bil...
The Fungus That Makes Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2017
In 1647, construction workers carrying out repairs on the Church of Saint Andrew in the small city of Venzone, in the province of Udine, Ita...
The Abandoned Hotels of Kupari
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2017
Affixed to the wall near the city gate in the town of Dubrovnik on Croatia’s beautiful Dalmatian Coast, is a map showing the scale of damage...
Derbent: Russia’s Oldest City
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2017
Located on a narrow strip of land between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains in the far western end of Eurasia, is the city of Derbe...
The Mega Hotels of Mecca
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2017
A mammoth new hotel is rising in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Mecca. When completed it will have 10,000 rooms spanning more than 1.4 million squ...
The Rise of Vertical Cemeteries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2017
According to the Population Reference Bureau , there are approximately 101 billion dead people on earth with 7 billion more to join them wit...
Copenhagen’s Urban Birdhouses
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2017
Thomas Dambo—you may remember him from a couple of months ago, where he constructed giant troll-like wooden sculptures and hid them around ...
Modern Potemkin Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2017
In 1787, Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia, was scheduled for a grand tour of the newly acquired lands of Crimea and New Russia—now...
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin’s Color Photographs of Pre-Revolution Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2017
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer, best known for his pioneering work in color photography during t...
