Geography beyond textbooks

Another academic year is coming to an end. You are probably in ‘final exam mode.’ This is a polite way of saying you are ‘cramming’ or ‘mugging’ for your exams. :-) Particularly with geography, far too much of it is about recalling facts. Not about understanding the connections of…

Matrix unloaded!

English. Spanish. Monks. Banks. Beards. Zodiac. Innocents abroad. Geography. Non-digital age. What could possibly go wrong?

A place may be a room, a town, or even a whole country. Geographers recognize that a place is not just the physical entity; it is a whole lot more…

“If you trip and fall, it is there only!”

History. Spirituality. Earshot. Time. Cost. Social justice. Geography. How are these connected with distance?

In Hampi, during the latter part of the Vijayanagara Empire, in the 15th–16th century period, there was a great poet…

Geographer-farmer

A geographer-farmer

Eye-in-the-sky satellites, Google Earth, WhatsApp, latitudes, longitudes, agriculture, northern Karnataka, a 69-year old farmer, college students in a bus, a Chief Minister, and a foreign-educated Agriculture Minister. These are the interesting…