Eine Stadt namens Hardwar - In Heiligen Höhen
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Tom Vater
Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from South Asia and beyond
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Shiva’s Toilet – The Parvati Valley, India
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 [...]
Sadhus und Sannyasis: asketische Bettler und Verweigerer - Indiens wilde Heilige
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In Heiligen Höhen - Rezension von Tom Vaters Reisebuch zur Quelle des Ganges
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To the Source of the Ganges - Photobook by Aroon Thaewchatturat (Text: Tom Vater)
In July 2008, Aroon Thaewchatturat’s new photo book, Zur Quelle des Ganges (A Journey to the Source of the Ganges), was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. It looks great. I wrote the text. The book is the result of three months travel through the central Indian Himalaya in 2007, on foot, by [...]
In Sacred Heights - Tom Vater’s new book to the cradle of the Ganges
I traveled to the source of the Ganges, India’s holiest river, accompanying my wife Aroon Thaewchatturat on a photography assignment, and wrote a book on the characters we met along the way, including Indian writers Ruskin Bond, Bill Aitken and Ganesh Saili. I wrote most of the book in a cottage in Landour, a village [...]
Sadhus, Sannyasis, Ascetic Mendicants And Renouncers - India’s Holy Men
The Wild Holy Men Of India, Caught Between Past and Present
Boom Boom Baba
Boom Boom Baba sits on a stone platform above the Benares ghats, the steps where millions of Hindu pilgrims come to bathe every year.
“I am Naga, I am very dangerous. But I will pray for you and make a good puja.”
Boom Boom Baba [...]