Franz and Rava Idli

28 June 2014 was the 100th anniversary of an event of great importance for the world. It resulted in the deaths of millions worldwide, brought an end to empires, technological and scientific breakthroughs, changes in population structures, and widespread re-alignment of the human geography of…

You and We = Us!

Increasingly, over human history, no single country can exist without interacting with others. Even that seemingly most isolated of countries, North Korea, has to interact in some way or other with other countries in ways to benefit itself.

Religion and geography — making more meet the eye

Ramadan (or Ramzan) is underway. Since Islam follows a lunar calendar, the dates of Ramzan vary from year to year. Throughout the world, the basic pattern of the observance of Ramadan is common to all Muslims. The beginning and ending of the…

Medical geography

August 1854. London was experiencing an outbreak of cholera. People were dying in alarming numbers. A physician, Dr John Snow, did some very innovative investigating. He plotted cases of cholera on a map of London, using dots to show where the cases were occurring. Then using interviews with…

Confluences — not just for rivers

All cultural practice occurs in geographic space. Thus, culture is very spatial. If it is spatial, it can be mapped.

Among the many cultural acts that we perform, pilgrimage is one of the very powerful acts. Pilgrimage is often described as “an…