1st week - stories of india

When I took this course, I did not know what to expect from this class. The thing that interested me in this course was the fact that we would be reading about Indian mythology. I have always been interested in learning about it but I never got around to it. Mapping is something I explored in other classes as well but it was quite different than what we aim to achieve in this class. Mapping the geographical changes was something I could not grasp at first and with the first exercise I showed the areas in which the story is described while not giving much importance to the geography of the region. I placed the three described scenes on a map of what I imagined Bengal would look like in the 1900’s. After looking at the other maps and discussions in class I had a clearer idea of what the maps should look like and in the group map we made that combined both the stories “My Lord, the baby” and “Home Coming” we looked at using iconography to depict certain parts of the map. I learned some better ways to showcase the geographical region in which these stories take place.