Tag: Germany
Trees talk to each other, commune and look after their offspring
A recent book by Peter Wohlleben’s which has quickly become a bestseller in Germany reveals a lot about the social life of trees but he confesses before the Hay festival audience that it has annoyed scientists over the world.
Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet...
Familiar landscapes and fond reminiscences have been airbrushed out by others eager to view the “two dictatorships” – the genocidal Nazi empire and the Communist East German state – as equal halves of a history of 20th-century German totalitarianism.
Europe Negated Roma Genocide, Why Should it Mourn Now?
75 years have passed since the mass genocide of the Sinti and Roma people, has Europe learnt its lessons?
An Exhibition on the Life and Times of Annie Frank in the Capital
An exhibition on the life and times of German Holocaust survivor Annie Frank is on at IIC from April 18-29, 2019. The exhibition boasts of dairy excerpts, photographs and video footage and is an effort to enhance curiosity about Annie Frank’s journey.
My Whiteness and the Grayness of Life
SPECIAL ESSAY
In this piece written with extraordinary honesty and clarity, Benjamin Stewart - an engaged learner pursuing Master of Arts in Social Sciences with the University of Freiburg in Germany
