Alexander E. Davis

‘From K2 to Kanyakumari, Bharat is One’: The visual and geopolitical place-making of road signs in Ladakh

One of the first things travelers to the Indian Himalaya remark upon are the curious, often rhyming and comedic, road signs of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) dotting the strategic roads of the region. In this article, I ask what role road signs play in physically narrating,...