The Z Hotel – Tom Vater

Teaching the Termites – Tom Vater on the pleasures of hotel libraries

October 27, 2009April 7, 2010tomLeave a Comment

I love libraries, bookshops, even a pile of books to look through will do. And I like hotels with a decent library. Most hotels I stay in, whether up-scale, flea-pit or somewhere in between, don’t have libraries. A couple months ago, I was staying at the Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, India, one of my […]

The Battle For Catfish – Orissa’s Fishermen Struggle for Catches

April 13, 2004November 23, 2018tomLeave a Comment

The Andhra fishermen of Puri on India’s east coast are fighting for cultural, financial and spiritual survival. First light on Puri Beach. Pentacotta fishing village, which grows like a misshapen appendix from the resort’s northern beach front, is coming to life. More than 10.000 people from Andhra Pradesh live in small one-storey stone and mud […]