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How to book a cab (Ola/Uber) even if there is no cab in your location?This was done by my friends at the hostel when they needed a cab at late night for night outs. Our hostel is in a very interior location so usually after 9 P.M. there are no cabs to be found in our area.Suppose, the location where they wanted to call the cab is X.Navigate around the map, the nearest location where the cab is and book it to a place near to that location. Consider it Y.When the cab reaches the location Y which is in the vicinity of X, cancel it and with another mobile phone, book it from your original location, i.e. X.Job done. I know, it’s unethical but still.

There is no universally accepted notion of what a continent is nor any agreement on how many continents there are. However, for most school purposes India is assumed to be in Asia due to Eurocentrism.If you are looking at plate tectonics, India is a continent with a major plate of its own: Indian Plate.If you consider the botany, India and South East Asia is grouped into a single continent.If you are dividing world by civilizations, India is in its own:If you are grouping by ethnicity, South Asia is usually put in one bucket:If you are talking politically, then the world is usually divided into 12 regions.Historically, geologically, botanically, ethnically and politically Asia is not a single continent and neither is India in one. Unlike Europe, there is no common history or a shared currency/trade zone in Asia. Unlike the Americas, Asia doesn’t sit on a single continental plate or share a common timeline of discovery.But, hey some random dudes in Greece saw everything east of Constantinople as one region and thus our schools continue to teach that anachronistic reality. They could as well be teaching flat earth theory.Next time when you say India is in Asia “by geography” or “by convention” think through your statement. By what geographical markers and by whose conventions?

This is the map of India on Google maps website accessed from India. Take a look at Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh.This is the map of India on Google maps website accessed from Pakistan.This is the map of India in Google Maps accessed outside India and Pakistan.The 3 maps have 3 different representations of Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh in 3 different location.Many locations across the world are claimed by multiple countries. In such scenarios, the maps will be represented depending on the political scenario of the particular location.(Images: Google Maps)