Stuttgart

In 2011 they exchanged their workplaces: Sukhada Tatke, journalist from Mumbai, came to Stuttgart. Before, our editor Anja Wasserbäch spent one month in the megacity Mumbai. The culture-shock was enormous. On both sides. Sukhada Tatke thinks back to her stay in Germany. more ...

How does an Indian woman like Indian cuisine in Stuttgart? Sukhada Tatke visited six restaurants in the city and ordered Butter Chicken. Again and again. A personal report. more ...

It started with an email a few months ago inviting me to a one-month journalists' exchange program to Germany. more ...

They find the love stories all the same, the dances absurdly funny, songs ridiculously timed and the duration a bit too long. Yet, Bollywood and Beyond, organized by the Filmburo Baden Wurttenberg has emerged as one of the most popular film festivals in Germany in the last few years. Sukhada Tatke gets to the bottom of this phenomena. more ...

Sukhada Tatke discovers Stuttgart on foot and claims to have walked more than probably all of last year. Otherwise there seem to be a few more differences between the German and Indian public transport system. more ...

How guest journalist Sukhada Tatke discovers Swabian cuisine. more ...

Just as I was about to enter the Fernsehturm, the 217-metre tall TV tower, standing atop Baden Wurttemberg’s capital, Frank quietly said to me "A lot of people are afraid to climb to the top of the tower. It moves when the wind blows.’’ I wasn’t sure if he was joking, but I went inside anyway. more ...

Sukhada Tatke about the much-invoked German punctuality, "Indian Stretchable Time" and surprisinig sympathies for the sun. more ...

Guest journalist Sukhada Tatke from "The Times of India" met Stuttgart's mayor Wolfgang Schuster. An interview about trees, the image of the city, the quality of life and of course: Stuttgart 21. more ...

Railway stations, trees and organic vegetables: Guest journalist Tatke from our Indian sister city Mumbai speaks with Mayor Schuster. more ...

Sonntag or Sunday seems to be an excuse for everything that does not happen in this city. If it’s so quiet that one is tempted to whisper here, blame it on Sunday. If the roads are empty and people few at a peak hour in the evening, you know it is Sunday. Perhaps that is why, the coldest day in six weeks chose to make its presence felt on Sunday, the day I landed in this city. more ...