Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice’s Flooded Bookstore
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2016
During the winter months, Venice suffers from bouts of periodic flooding, known as acqua alta , caused by exceptionally high tides that occu...
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2016
Some Native American cultures built large stone circles by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground. They are known as “medicine ...
Kofun: Japan's Keyhole-Shaped Burial Mounds
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2016
The landscape around Kansai, in southern-central Japan, especially around Osaka and Nara, is dotted by curious keyhole-shaped mounds surroun...
The Orange Rocks of Bay of Fires
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
The Bay of Fires, on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, is a large bay that extends for about 30 km from Binalong Bay in the s...
The Lost Villages of St. Lawrence
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
In 1954, the United States and Canada jointly embarked on a massive engineering project that involved the creation of a 600-km-long navigabl...
The Brown Dog Affair
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
In a secluded spot near the Old English Garden, in London’s Battersea Park, is a small bronze statue of a terrier. The statue was erected in...
Siq, Petra’s Spectacular Gorge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
The ancient city of Petra, located in the heart of the mountainous desert of southern Jordan, had different approaches in the past. One poss...
London’s Deep Level Air Raid Shelters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2016
When the Second World broke out in Europe, and London became the prime bombing target, people began to pour into the platforms of the London...
Colma, The Town of The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2016
South of San Francisco, near Daly City, lies the small town of Colma where the dead outnumbers the living by a thousand to one. It’s less th...
Jal Mahal: Jaipur’s Submerged Water Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2016
Submerged in the waters of an artificial lake, in the “pink city” of Jaipur, in the state of Rajasthan, India, is the beautiful marbled pala...
