Tom Vater

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June 28th, 2010 | Tags: Anglo-Inder, Anglo-Indian, Colleen Gantzer, Doordarshan, East India Company, film producer, Filmproduzent, hill station, Hugh Gantzer, India, Indian Express, Indian history, Indien, Jim Corbett, Looking Beyond with Hugh and Colleen Gantzer, Mussoorie, North India, photographer, Raj, Schriftsteller, The Year Before Sunset, writer couple | Category: India | Leave a comment

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June 26th, 2010 | Tags: Ganesh Saili, ganges, Garhwal, Geo-Reisecommunity, In Heiligen Höhen, Indien, Indien Erlesen, Reisebuch, Ruskin Bond, Tom Vater, Tungnath Mandir, Wiesenburg Verlag, Zur Quelle des Ganges, Zur Wiege des Ganges | Category: India | Leave a comment

The conflict between the Thai government and the Red Shirts – the former backed by a lose interest group that includes the military, royalists, part of the capital’s business community and right-wing fringe elements, commonly known as the Yellow Shirts, the latter a growing and motley collection of often paid supporters of fugitive former Prime [...]

June 25th, 2010 | Tags: anti government, Bangkok, consitutional crisis, fighting, May, military crackdown, politics, Protest, Rajaprasong, red shirts, reportage, riot, South East Globe, Southeast Asia Globe, Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, Tom Vater, unrest, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

One of my images of a Red Shirt demonstration in early April, a few days prior to the first serious riots in the nine week show-down between protesters and the Thai government, ran in The Daily Telegraph’s education pages in the UK in early June. At the time, I think it was April 4th, the [...]

June 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Bangkok burns, Daily Telegraph, image, May riots, Navigating SATs in a war zone, Rajaprasong, red shirts, Stephen Leather, Thailand, Tom Vater | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

It’s official! Legendary songsmith and Canadian national treasure Leonard Cohen is playing a one-off show in Phnom Penh, on November 27th 2010, likely to add a positive footnote to Cambodia’s turbulent history and present the re-emerging Cambodian capital as a stage for international events for the first time in decades – probably since King Norodom [...]

June 21st, 2010 | Tags: Asia, Cambodia, concert, concert series, Leonard Cohen, music, Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh, poet, rock concert, rock music in Cambodia, songwriter, The Mekong Sessions, World Tour | Category: Cambodia | Comments (4)

The 13th century Konark Sun Temple in Orissa is one of the most spectacular buildings in India and features a vast array of erotic sandstone carvings.  View more images on my flickr page.

June 20th, 2010 | Tags: architecture, art, Bay of Bengal, erotic carving, erotica, image, India, Indian, Konarak, Konark, Orissa, photography, representation, sandstone, sculpture, sex act, sexuality, temple, Tom Vater | Category: India | Leave a comment

Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been reviewed by Mark Taylor in DOX Magazine in its current Summer Edition. Here an excerpt: Eberle’s documentary takes us from this first encounter to the construction at Long Chen of a centre of industrialized death-from-above. [...]

June 16th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, documentary, DOX Magazine, drugs and the CIA, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, James Lilley, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, Mark Taylor, screenplay, Secret Bombing, Secret War, The CIA's Covert War in Laos, The Most Secret Place on Earth, The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam War, Vint Lawrence | Category: Laos, USA | Leave a comment

As the Football World Cup opens in South Africa today, I am republishing the only football story I´ve ever written. Watching the World Cup Match between the USA and Iran in Esfahan in 1998, was one of the highlights of my time in Iran. The streets of this beautiful city were crammed with revelers, celebrating [...]

June 11th, 2010 | Tags: Esfahan, football, football game, football history, football match, Football World Cup, historic football match, Iran, Middle East, soccer, sport and politics, Tom Vater, USA, Usa against Iran, world cup | Category: Iran, USA | Leave a comment

I have put some images from South East Asia and India up on flickr. Here’s a pig’s head – an offering at a village fair in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.

June 10th, 2010 | Tags: Asia, Cambodia, flickr, images, India, photography, pig's head, Southeast Asia, Tom Vater, village fair | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment