What do jazz music, Africa, cotton farming, Indian spirituality, and a triangle have to do with Geography? On 18 March 2007, we found out.
Geography And All That Jazz
“The book makes an important point through its arguments for understanding how mythical spaces inform people’s current critical and practical engagement with the geographic spaces that they traverse, occupy, and negotiate.”
A myth and metaphor enacted in an urban geographic context — The Bangalore karaga.
Background:
The Mahabharatam is one of the two great Indian epics. The story of the Mahabharatam is very complex and there are many versions of…
Saturday, 4 December 1971.
It was the 2nd period. Eighty of us, all boys, at National High School, Standard 8, Room N7 were restless. We were milling about, making noise.
Happy New Year!
Welcome to the geography blog at the The Indian Institute of Geographical Studies (TIIGS) site.
In case you have not yet seen the introduction page to the TIIGS (http://tiigs.org), TIIGS has been set up to promote interesting ways to…