mondays New York Times ran an extensive article about the details released about the british ‘terror’ scam of early august. the article based on statements from five senior British officials pretty much confirms what other sources had admitted immediately after the scare: the whole fuzz was apparently about a couple of kids who did not […]
so i am back at london heathrow, waiting for my connecting flight to amsterdam. to get from my arrival gate to the departure hall i had to clear a third(!!) security check since arriving at the airport in delhi. (the first one being the standard delhi airport one and the second a special one by […]
… has been close to unbearable in the last couple of days. daytime temperatures in the high 30s and low 40s and high humidity do not really constitute an enjoyable atmosphere. the fact that yesterday night’s garden reception that was hosted by sarai on the occasion of the launch of the sarai reader #06 was […]
while not being as efficient as the São Paulo metro system (efficiency being rather absent from public services in india in general), the delhi metro system – which has been growing from one 5 station line to 3 lines with more than 40 stations in the last 3 years – is quite an experience as […]
The BBC is currently doing a rather interesting live conversation with a a panel of inhabitants of the south lebanese village of Al-Khiam (which is notorious for the torture prison the israeli supported SLA did run there from 1985 to 2000). the villagers are answering questions that can be posed to them via the BBC-news […]
usually i do not really like being recognized as a german when i am in a far-away-country, but todays encounter somewhere on a road just west of Delhi’s old city was kind of hilarious. the auto rikshaw we were traveling in was overtaken by a small white car and when the guy sitting next to […]
on Whitchapel road in East London: Technorati Tags: atm, banking, islam, london, sharia
i guess the recent weeks have shown that the use of the word ‘sometimes’ in the above quote by Shimon Naveh, a retired Brigadier-General who directs the Operational Theory Research Institute of the IDF is somewhat misplaced: the IDF definitely knows more about killing and destruction than about reading and building. while the article ‘the […]
ars technica has a sweet little write-up about the fact that london cabbies apparently reject satellite navigation devices (which they are allowed to use since beginning of this year). the main reason seems to be pride in having passed the notoriously difficult exam (‘the knowledge‘) which is required to get a license: Cabbies have two […]
thats right. it looks like those ‘terrorists’ who were arrested last week in london were not even close to blowing up anything, let alone boarding an international flight. according to the NBC a senior British official knowledgeable about the [hair-gel bombers] has suggested that … an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not […]