Author / Ishaan Shah
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Grey Rainforest, Concrete Jungle
Walking along the dirt footpath, I watched a family of white spotted deer feeding on the leaves of a rosewood tree. A pair of rhesus macaques quietly dart between their toes leaping onto a nearby branch and quickly darting up a neem tree. A trio of Hanuman langurs rests on a pile of hay picking…
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Covering Earth In The 21st Century
On thethirdpole.net, interested readers can find in-depth discussion and multilingual coverage of the Himalayan Valley watershed. This watershed provides fresh water to nearly 1.3 billion people and the website highlights local political challenges that South Asian countries face regarding the collective management of this precious natural resource alongside detailed, interactive maps that show the distribution…
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Let Us Burn
A plume of black smoke tarnished the baby blue sky. My bumper was glued to the Ford F150 in front of me. I could not tell where the smoke was coming from but I knew I was moving towards it. I bent slowly around dilapidated houses overgrown with summer brush, inching towards I-80 on my…
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College Endowments: A Colonial Empire
In 1793, General Cornwallis, one of the leading British generals in the American Revolutionary War and later, the Governor-General of India, introduced the Permanent Settlement Act to the Indian territory of Bengal, which instituted the zamindari land ownership system into Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, and Varanasi. Under the zamindari system, each region would have an appointed…
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Boycotting Rhodes
In 2000, Professor Kwaw “Andreas Woods” Imana stepped up to the podium to give the valedictorian speech at Morehouse College’s graduation. Morehouse is a private all-male historically black college, and it has produced the most black male Rhodes Scholars in the world. To the audience’s surprise and raucous support, Professor Imana revealed during his speech…
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Past In Present
Staying informed can be a daunting task. Even with the unlimited sources provided by the internet, keeping tabs on all the world’s happenings seems not only impossible but emotionally draining. It is no secret that through this constant barrage of news and information, things tend to slip through the cracks; tragedies, decisions, and statements may…
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Holding His Narrative Hostage
His name was mentioned in over 12,000 journal articles. Early descriptions of his brain were the first attempts at memory research. After his autopsy, his brain was sliced into 2,401 70-slices and uploaded to create a three-dimensional model of his brain while 400,000 viewers watched on a livestream. After his brain was sliced up, there…
