Geography brain-teasers

You are used to geography quizzes, right? What is the capital of … Name three rivers … and so on. Boooo!!

Down with those kinds of quizzes, I say! You are more capable than just memorizing things. Yes!

Medical Geography

My guru used to tell me: “Geography brings things together like no other discipline can. Within geography, the sub-discipline of medical geography does this more than any other.”

Today, we take a brief look at medical geography (also known as ‘health geography’).

Tools of geography

“I want to be a computer scientist, but I am also interested in its applications to help planet Earth.”

“I want to study natural science but I can’t be both geographer and natural scientist at the same time!”

Sacred places, sacred traces

Moving places. Sacred ones, at that. The power of faith and reverence for place. These are frequently on display. If we look, we can see!

Geography is, ultimately, about places. Places themselves do not have “meaning”; we give them different meanings…

Doing geography research (Part 1 of 2)

Geography research is fun!

Project work. Chart paper. Wikipedia, copy, paste, get marks. Topic something mundanely boring, usually not related to where you live. This is very common.

Sacred geography … on the move!

We are all geographers, whether we realize it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. So, every bit of curiosity that we feel about the world around us is valid and important.

Motherland — a geopious notion

People are often willing to go so far as to die for “their” country, “their” land. The “land” and “country” they are willing to die for may be a piece of property, it may be a land for a culture to live in, it may be a “holy” place, and so on. The scale varies.

One plate idli

I have lived in a few different parts of the world over the years. Of all the breakfast foods, the ones I grew up with in Bengaluru are my favorites. Though I like and relish the various other kinds of breakfast foods out there, my comfort foods for breakfast include: idli (no. 1 favorite!), vaday…

Lat-long on a flat surface!

12–13 September 2013.

Class 7 kids of Shriram Matriculation School (SMS) gather to learn about latitudes and longitudes, grids, and how to give the location of places using coordinates.

No more in “no-man’s” land

Recently, Indian Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi went on an “historic” visit to our eastern neighbor: Bangla Desh. What made it so historic? Answer: the enormous impacts on the human geographies of the two countries.