Hallo, colleagues, friends and readers! Well, January is already past! Seriously??? Wow, it was really fast! I don’t know if you felt the same, but it was like a week for me. Possibly I had this feeling because of the avalanche of exams, papers and deadlines. – By the way, is there life after deadlines? [...]

Archeaologists find dinosaur bones and not graffitis, I would have said a couple of years ago, but since I found out I’m more a city tourist than a nature tourist, the idea of an urban archaeology became more clear. I love the chaos and the “ugliness” of the big urban centers, crowded with all kinds [...]

Hi everybody! (: I’m right now in the beautifull city of Joensuu, Finland. Here I spent christmas night and new years eve with a good finnish friend, Saara, who I first met in Brasil two years ago. I was lucky with the weather and even more with the 15 days I spent here. Every single [...]

Conventional non-European travelers in Europe would always visit places like Paris, Berlin, Rome or Venice. How many of them would have even heard about Corsica. Its perhaps because the local Inhabitants of Corsica were always against the efforts of the French Govt. in developing tourism on the lovely Island. The island of Corsica if officially [...]

I have always been compromised with my education. Since I was a child, I was always carrying books from here to there trying to devour their content. My childhood was not particularly abnormal: Accidents with the bicycle, fights with my brother, typical rebellion and summer loves. Costa Rica, as part of the basic rights for [...]

After we finished our interviews, we wanted to find a nice black bag, that another Tandem-Repoter had shown us. Therefore we went to Hall 7, searched everywhere but couldn’t find it. We were frustrated and started asking people who carried the bag. Always the same answer: “We don’t remember where we got it from.” They [...]

German artist Gregor Schneider designs a Durga pujo pandal as part of Germany and India: Infinite Opportunities.

I always admired the environmental activism’s notoriety in Germany, how diverse the causes are and how the media give space for this kind of debate. Since I arrived here I’ve had a close look on the nuclear energy’s question, what I already mentioned in my post about the current issue around Stuttgart 21 construction. Nuclear [...]

I remember how much I cried. I was reading the newspaper, as part of my media analysis, and the words were hurting me. It happened years ago and I am still able to recall some of the facts, phrases, photographs and even diagrams related to my work. It was a research about media re-construction of [...]

A few thoughts on my country as inspired by my German experience, on the occasion of India’s Independence Day.