During colonisation, the norm was to control administration in foreign lands from European cities. All British colonies were controlled from London , Portugue…
If we take Indian sources, the northernmost neighbouring tip country for India is Afghanistan. This strip of land, according to Pakistani sources, is the Gilgi…
The British provinces in India just before independence were primarily eleven in number: Bengal, Bombay, Madras, United Provinces, Punjab, Bihar, Central Provi…
What to write on Srinagar? The current political history is well-known and the city (and the valley of Kashmir) are so conflicted, that even this apolitical st…
There are several places globally that have a divine connotation to them, named after a certain celestial realm. In Hinduism, there's Amaravati (located at…
The decade of the 1960s marked a wave of mass decolonisation. A total of 31 nations globally gained independence from the United Kingdom and France, 75% of whi…
When Himachal Pradesh was in the process of attaining statehood, it stood out as one of the few territories that were geographically fragmented, separated by d…
A collection of my hand-sketched maps