#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers Answers to the quiz questions asked along with the map information 1. Fearless Nadia 2. Chenab 3. Jawaharlal Nehru 5. ‘When Eight Bells Toll’ by Alistair Maclean 11. Kollam and Kharagpur 13. Gurkhas 14. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya 18. Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers 25. The bombil fish popular on the west coast of India is known in English as Bombay Duck. While there are several different theories for how this name came about, one origin story suggests it is named for the Bombay […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers 17. The Palace on Wheels is a luxury train that’s a big favourite with well-heeled foreign tourists and a small proportion of Indian passengers who want to live life like the royals of past princely states. The carriages of the […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers 9. Occasionally running between New Delhi and Alwar in Rajasthan, but otherwise housed at the Rewari Railway Heritage Museum, the Fairy Queen is a steam locomotive built in 1855 and restored in 1997. In 1998, it was listed in the […]
The Romance of the Railways
The Romance of the Railways Art by Rai The railways in India have a lot of superlatives attached to them – oldest, highest, longest, most beautiful. Travelling by rail is an experience packed with incident (admittedly, not always pleasant). It will always hold a certain charm, in the face of all change, not least because […]
Allen Shaw
Allen Shaw Artist Allen is an Indian artist, illustrator, animator and storyteller based in Berlin. He is passionate about travelling and recording his journey in sketchbooks and has been doing this consistently for the last 25 years. A graduate in animation film design from NID, Ahmedabad, he is currently focussed on illustrating books for children. […]
Suffernama
Vol 2 Issue 1 | April-June 2022 Suffernama Story and art by Suhail Naqshbandi Kashmir: a brief history Over the centuries, Kashmir has been ruled by several dynasties and kings – from Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire to the Mughals to Ahmad Shah Durrani of the Durrani Empire and later, Ranjit Singh of […]
Vol 2 Issue 1 April-June 2022
Volume 2 Issue 1 In this issue, read about an arduous passage two brothers are forced to take through the mountains of Kashmir to Gilgit in Suffernama; a forest ranger’s quest to rescue a group of teenagers lost deep in the woods of Russia (or is it Ukraine?) in Into the Woods; a young Polish […]
Into the Woods
Vol 2 Issue 1 | April-June 2022 Into the Woods Story by C.G. Salamander | Art by Rajiv Eipe Russian Forest Rangers Russian forest rangers like Anya are tasked with protecting forests, national parks, and local parklands. Living a basic life often in the remotest, coldest parts of the country, they are constantly […]
Take Me Home
Vol 2 Issue 1 | April-June 2022 Take Me Home Story by Tina Thomas | Art by Priya Kuriyan TAKE ME HOME explores the meaning and feeling of home beyond the physical space you occupy in this world. Home is where the heart is – but what if you need another person’s permission […]
