Relief workers and the Bangladesh military on Tuesday reached the last remaining pockets of the country devastated by a cyclone that killed nearly 3 500 people along the Bay of Bengal. It has taken five days to gain access to the hardest-hit areas in an operation involving helicopters, planes and boats, as well as thousands of […]
The Magic of Jammu and Kashmir Can Leave you Spell bound
If it wasn’t for Bollywood, Srinagar probably wouldn’t take hold of our collective imagination the way it has for decades. Then again, maybe it would even without images of Shammi Kapoor running in the foreground, the city’s gorgeous landscape scrawling far behind him. The capital of Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar is a city of […]
Al Gore in Vancouver
Al Gore gave his talk “An Inconvenient Truth” in Vancouver on Saturday, September 29th. It was an awful, wet evening outside – the rain lashed down and the wind howled along the concrete canyons of the downtown. Inside the Westin Bayshore hotel were the great and the good of Lower Mainland society. And me. The […]
The Road to Che
A bicycle on an iron support standing on a rock plinth – it was the simplest monument I’d ever seen. It was a real bike too, one that had been used, not pre-cast in metal or concrete. The monument sits in the Cuban city of Cardenas, where the most of the people rely on […]
Gateway To South-East Asia
<p> </p> <p>Factually the Meaning of Surat Thani is "City of the fine People" and is the former seat of the Srivijaya Empire. It is the biggest region of the South, covering an area of 12,892 square kilometres and bounded by the Gulf of Thailand to the north and the east. Surat Thani is located 645 […]
Berlin Game
In 1987, Berlin had four sectors and was divided by The Wall into two countries. Each sector of Berlin had its own airport. Schoenefeld airport was in East Berlin’s Russian sector in East Germany. The other three, Gatow, Tempelhof, and Tegel were in the French, American, and British sectors respectively of West Berlin, an island […]
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