Geography of India

As anybody who has spent time travelling around India will know, the Geography of India is on of huge extremes and the view is the same from what every aspect you look at it. For example the huge diversity of the natural landscape, the massively wide spectrum of tundras and the huge range plant and animal life in each region.

Whenever anybody asks me what is India like, I never know quite how to answer. Do I talk about the climate? The Arctic conditions in the north to the Subtropical areas in the south or the desert regions to the west, it really can't be summarised. Or maybe I should talk about the people of India, mention the huge range of ethnicities, languages, religions and cultural practices... Again, impossible to answer without taking an age to do so. Perhaps I should talk about the terrain, the huge contrasts between the north and the south, the flat lands, the highlands, the lush forests, the dry deserts, the tropical beaches, the lonely mountains or the scorching cities. I hope I am making my point clear? My point being that asking about the geography of India is more or less point-less. The country is so huge with every aspect of it's geography being so very very diverse, I think the only way you can really answer the question 'what is India like?' is by exploring India yourself.

Now I could tell you certain facts about the North, I could tell interesting facts about the people and I could even tell you interesting facts about the weather but I already have written about it elsewhere so here I'd rather make this article about the Geography of India more of an inspiration piece than just another random piece of trivia clogging up the veins of the internet and the minds of it's users.

India is like a small version of our home, earth. And in every way it is treated like it and is able to represent every aspect of it. It is possible to see every type of Geography of the earth on a small scale in India, for example the landscape, whether it be desert, Arctic conditions, coast land, forest, rainforest, desert and more, it is all there. And then the people. The people of India now make up roughly one fifth of the entire earth's population with every creed and religion going represented in some part of the country. The languages are so diverse that they have to use a shared foreign one to communicate with each other. The morality, the corruption, the cruelty, the generosity, the poverty and the wealth or represent some aspect of the world we live in and the population that inhabit it.

Looking carefully at Geography of India, it is easy get an excellent insight into the Geography of the world, to such an extent it almost tells us about our future as a species. To start with, the tremendous population of India and the mass overcrowding gives clues as to how the world will be able to handle our exploding global population. Put simply, it can't. Take a walk around any town or city in India and you will see a whole load of people. Look a little further and you will see an infrastructure breaking at the seams, incomprehensible poverty and heartbreaking corruption. The vast amounts of waste produced with no where to go floods what's left of the natural habitat with rest of it littering the streets. Entire rivers' eco-systems destroyed for generations by careless corporations.

OK, so maybe the world isn't heading in the same direction as India, at least not identically but the environmental damage being done to the geography of India is an omen of what's to come for the rest of us. Dwindling natural resources, disproportionate distribution of wealth, corruption on multiple levels and an out of control population growth are destroying what remains of India's natural beauty and on a slightly larger scope albeit a slightly slower route, the beauty of the earth, our home.

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