Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from South Asia and beyond
I tried to buy a weapon in a Wal-Mart supermarket in Lubbock, Texas, a few years back. I wanted the genuine American experience. I´d traveled thousands of miles for this. I almost managed.
These are the two guys that prevented me from becoming a devil´s reject on their parking lot with a semi-automatic cross-bow or some [...]
Charles Sobhraj, one of the world’s most notorious serial killer celebrities, also known as The Serpent and The Bikini Killer, is said to have murdered a string of back packers and tourists in South and Southeast Asia in the 1970s.
In 2003, Charles Sobhraj was arrested in Kathmandu, Nepal, for a 1975 murder.
In 2004, Mr. Sobhraj [...]
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Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.
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.
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.
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This is a travel story from some years back about a visit to a rather peculiar temple. So take a ride to the Temple of the Possessed…. Ashok was a great driver.
We are on our way to Balaji Mandir, a temple dedicated to the mighty monkey king Hanuman, who rescued Sita, Ram’s wife, [...]
This story was originally published in my anthology Beyond the Pancake Trench, available at my Amazon Store, as Paradise Lost - How the Wild East is turning into a Trailer Park.
There is a valley in the Himalayas so beautiful, that Shiva, Deity of 1008 names, Destroyer of the Universe, without Whom creation could [...]
In 2007, Aroon Thaewchatturat’s photo book, Palace Hotels of Rajasthan, was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. Tom Vater wrote the text. The book covers a wide range of heritage hotels with royal connections around Rajasthan, from modest but attractive mansions to gigantic palaces, from pure, sumptuous Raj nostalgia to bottomless kitsch.
The book [...]