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I had the opportunity to tour cambodia and visit ankor Wat Temple complex, possibly the largest Hindu temple complex in the world in 2019. There I have often come across wrong interpretation of Hinduism. The wrong interpretations were there in Museums, delivered by tourist guides,etc. But most of these, I now realise was from ignorance, false narrative of western authors and historians on their colonies. I was also under the influence of the fact that the Swastik symbol was taken up by Adolf Hitler and when he came to power swastika became a notorious symbol. Even by European colleagues in my last company know that swastika was a Hindu symbol and it didnt mean that harmful to us Hindus as it was for Hitler. However, during all these times from when I 1st read about ww2 in class 7 until today, thanks to our education system. It never occurred to my or neither any teacher made me think:- 1) why a christian man - Adolf Hitler who was born in a village to a very low level middle class pare...

Region is a dynamic concept which has been defined differently by different geographers. It’s an area having the homogeneity of physical and cultural phenomena. It is a device of area generalization in order to make the variable world around us understandable through spatial summaries. There are certain common characteristics which all are types of region (economic, spatial, planning) posses:- a)       Location; b)      Spatial Location; c)       Boundaries which are mostly transitional. Physical regions are distinguishable from each other on the basis of – physiography, climate, geology, soil, natural vegetation. Physiography A)     Mountains: - a) Himalayas (division on the basis of height) 1) Greater Himalayas; 2) Middle Himalayas; 3) Outer Himalayas. B) Plateau: - 1) Malwa Plateau; 2) Chatanagpur Plateau; 3) Deccan Plateau (it’s southern part is called Karnataka Pla...

a)       Complementary Region :- It’s the region or area served by the central place. It includes relationships in both directions- country to town and town to countryside. This area is tied to the regional centre for the higher order functions although oriented to local towns for lower-order towns. It’s area is larger than urban settlement area. b)      Congested Region :- It’s the region where the level of economic development has reached a scale at which diseconomies can be detected.diseconomies arise from the continuing increases in the intensity of the use of resources, in particular the transportation system, and eventually this leads to reduction in industrial efficiency. Example:- metropolitan areas in advanced industrial nations. c)       Core Region :- The term is given by John Friedman for concentrated metropolitan economies, comprising one or more clustered cities and the encompassing area w...