Plastic, plastic

You see, it’s a conveyor belt issue. And a never-really-goes-away kind of issue. Things don’t stay put, and your and my boundary lines on a map mean absolutely nothing in this situation. In many ways, that Spanish hospitality phrase “Mi casa es su casa” (‘my home is your home’) takes on a whole new…

We, the people

People! We are very interesting. In some ways.

When the PM (currently Sri Narendra Modi) of India has to coordinate and set the tone for the development of the nation (along with the entire government structure from Central government to village panchayat), one of the key…

Problems in pieces

Geographers look at the shapes of states and try to understand how the shape of a state affects its life. Geographers identify a variety of shapes of states:

Compact — states are close to being circular. These have roughly the same span of latitudes as longitudes. At…

We, the people — 2

When I was a young school kid (1960s and 1970s), we had a family in our neighborhood. The ‘head of the household’ was M. He worked as police constable. However, since he was physically rather unfit for actual police work, he was employed at the home of the Inspector of his station as a domestic…