The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
Netherlandish Proverbs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2018
Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...
London Railings Made From World War 2 Stretchers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2018
Many housing estates throughout London are surrounded by black steel and mesh railings with peculiar notches around the edges. Although at f...
The Legacy of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2018
A two-hour bumpy ride from Uyuni across Bolivia’s high plains will take you to the small town of San Vicente. At the entrance to this remote...
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...
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...
