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Ja. Er ist für mich einer der besten Filme der letzten Jahren – und nicht nur, weil er ein österreichischer Film ist: Der Kinoleinwandgeher vom Kärntner Schriftsteller Josef Winkler.
Winkler insziniert sich und provoziert mit seinen Gedanken zu Kirche, Religion, Kindheit, Homosexualität, wiederholt dem Tod sowie dem eigenen und verbindet dieses als kleinstes gemeinsames Vielfaches dreier [...]

A short summary where I was and where I am at the moment…
Started in Delhi and went to the top of North-India – Kashmir. Then Jammu, Amritsar, Chamba and Daramsala. Then one day Delhi. After that Varanasi and Kolkata. Now I am staying in Darjeeling.
Next stop is Kathmandu, then Delhi – Agra – Delhi – [...]

From Varanasi to Calcutta taking the night-train from 6 PM to 7 AM. Took the cheaper sleeping class (450 Rs, about 7 EUR) and a seat on the top bed. Talked with some local students and learned something about india in the sleeping train by speaking with the local guys.
I slept 10 hrs although it [...]

I am going to stay today (Wednesday, May 14) in Varanasi and visiting old city and some ghats. It’s now 10 AM and already very very hot in Varanasi.
In the evening at 6 PM I am heading off to Calcutta by night-train in the sleeper-class. Arriving there at around 8 AM next morning. In Calcutta [...]

Varanasi is one of the oldest and most spiritual cities in the world. Varanasi is famous for burning Hindu people next to the Ganges when they died.
I had a walk the whole day on the ghats of Varanasi. Ghats are places, where people can bath in the Ganges or where Hindu people are burned after [...]

Just read on CNN.com, thanks Markus for your info. I’m now in Varanasi.
DELHI, India (CNN) — India is on high alert after a series of near-simultaneous explosions killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 others in the northwestern city of Jaipur Tuesday night, government and local officials told CNN-IBN.
One of the wounded is helped [...]

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After visiting Delhi (New and Old) I took the nighttrain to Varanasi (6.15 PM to 7.45 AM). This time I took 3AC, this means three beds in a row and aircondition. Delhi – Varanasi is about 771 km and this class was up to 1.200 Rs (app. 20 Eur). Tomorrow night I am going to [...]

Arrived in Delhi at 9 AM. Then had a decent coffee and went by riksha to the Jama Masjid, an old temple in old Delhi. Jama Masjid is the biggest mosque in India and offers place for about 25.000 prayers. I went up the minarett and had a nice roundview on Delhi.
After that I bought [...]

My next steps
In McLeod Ganj I prepared the next steps. This night (from 11.05. to 12.05.) I am going by sleeper bus from McLeod Ganj to Delhi.
Tomorrow (12.05.) I will visit Old Delhi and at 6.30 PM the nighttrain is leaving to Varanasi. I am very much looking forward to Varanasi. It is an old, [...]