Mind the two months’s gap!

Incredible India? Yes indeed. Try it yourself with a one year valid tourist visa, good for multiple entry but with a mandatory gap of two months between visits to India. What’s behind it? Officials claim that misuse of tourist visas made this step necessary. I don’t know, whether this clause is due to the terrorist attacks in November 2008. Well,

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Home is, where my heart is …

“Alien is where human beings are being hurt and humiliated. Home is where human beings have friends, tongue and hope.” (Yüksel Pazarkaya) Maybe the meaning of the word “home” is most likely reflected if one does not terry the same. However, does the country of birth always necessarily equals home? If alien is, as the Turkish poet Pazarkaya describes it,

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India once again!

India for the forth time! It is again the triad: Mumbai – Poona – Goa. Within two years a lot has changed in the street picture of Mumbai and Poona. A lot of things are under construction, there are new restaurants and nice dance clubs. However, the insider tip is still GOA and especially the hotel “Alila Diwa”, a genuine

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Look behind the scenes

Even though the former Middle East Messenger nominally commited oneself to the regions of Middle and Near East, a look at the wider picture – literally to the second biggest Islamic country, India, – should be justified. The history of Islam in India is both, changeful and woebegone. The separation of Pakistan from India in 1947, for example, was gory,

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