When you gather 30 children from classes 7, 8, and 9, and provoke them to think and act, you will find that they are more than equal to the challenge.
Now, acclimation (getting used to the climate of a place). Of course it is never just the physical climate alone, but a whole lot more. Do not forget this was 1982 and the only TV we got to watch in Bengaluru consisted of a few hazy blue-and-white images for a few hours a day. DoorDarshan. That’s it. So, any…
The Indian Institute of Geographical Studies starts two new GeoVidyaa Geography Centres in Tamil Nadu– one at Nirmala College, Coimbatore and one Cascade Montessori Resource Centre, Chennai.
I was scheduled to fly from New York’s John F Kennedy (JFK) airport to New Delhi by Kuwait Airways. I flew from Fargo, North Dakota to JFK. I thought, “Why not just check my large suitcases at the counter, get the boarding pass, and then loaf around JFK for the next hour or so till…
Call centre workers and IT employees experience it. Long distance jet-setters –of late, Prime Minister Sri Modi, US Secretary of State John Kerry — experience it. And geographers such as my USA-based colleagues with whom I work have to deal with it.
Geographies — latitudes, climates, soils, settlements, shared spaces in the biosphere (where the lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere intersect), cultural practices, the size of Earth, and vast distances. Jet travel. Advanced medical and…
I often tell my students that geography is a lot about prepositions. Well, one preposition primarily: where. It’s about location … and a lot of other things that come from that one concept.
In an earlier column, I had mentioned the interconnections among the three spheres — hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. In passing, I have also mentioned examples of these connections. Today, I’ll expand on this topic a little more.
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…