Tom Vater

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May 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Autor, Dehra Dun, Die große Welle vor Kanagawa, ganges, Garhwal, Heimatliteratur, Himalaja, Himalajas, Himalaya, In Heiligen Höhen, India, Indien, Indische Literatur, John Llewllyn Rhys Memorial Prize, Katsushika Hokusai, Landour, Literatur Indiens, Mussoorie, Nordindien, Reiseliteratur, Room On The Roof, Ruskin Bond, Schriftsteller, Tom Vater, V.S. Naipaul, Wiesenburg Verlag | Category: India | Leave a comment

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November 1st, 2009 | Tags: Darjeeling, Der beste Tee der Welt, Himalajas, Himalaya, Indien, Makaibari, Ökoanbau, Rajah Banerjee, Tee, Teeplantage, Tom Vater, West Bengalen | Category: India | Leave a comment

“Life is chaos, the world is chaos. The only constant is change. I like chaos and the way you position yourself in it. Where do we come from? What are we doing here and where are we going? We need to answer these questions to be free, to find our way. That’s what I’m doing [...]

May 30th, 2009 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, biodynamic, Darjeeling, Himalaya, holistic, India, Makaibari Tea Estate, organic, Rajah Banerjee, Silver Tips, tea, tea estate, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Tom Vater, Traversing The Orient, West Bengal | Category: India | Leave a comment

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 [...]

June 5th, 2008 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Char Dham, ganges, Gangotri, Hardwar, Himalaja, Himalaya, India, Indien, Mussoorie, photographer, Reisefotografie, Rishiskesh, sadhu, Tapovan, Tungnath Mandir | Category: India | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 4th, 2008 | Tags: book, ganges, Gangotri, Gaumukh, Hardwar, Himalaya, India, Indien, non-fiction, Raja Wilson, Reisebuch Indien, Rishiskesh, Ruskin Bond, sadhu, Tapovan, travel | Category: India | Leave a comment