Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic crime fiction and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
In 2004, writer Tom Vater and photographer Steve Sandford visited the war stricken kingdom of Nepal and met a Maoist cell high up in the Annapurna’s for four days of talks. Two years on and Nepal’s belligerent king has shut down democracy alltogether and driven communist rebels and pro-democracy advocates into the same corner, while [...]
The Moken sea gypsies, a small indigenous fishing community in Thailand, relied on their deep knowledge of the sea to save the lives of tourists and locals when the giant tsunami that devastated coastal communities in South Asia swept across their islands. Yet the Moken are facing stark choices in the aftermath of the catastrophe, [...]
Tom Vater writing as Ian Cole (why exactly I don’t recall) for Farang Magazine in January 2005.
Tom Vater reports on the world’s most expensive cuppa. Makaibari Tea Estates in Darjeeling have developed sustainable and biodynamic agriculture at high returns and plantation owner Rajah Banerjee is a true eccentric – businessman, visionary, environmentalist – who has elevated growing tea to an artform.