Hamburg

>Hamburg has been home to Indians for decades, and a long-time friend. It was here that the government-in-exile of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose first recorded Jana Gana Mana as the national anthem of India with an orchestra conducted by Eigel Krütge and broadcast by German radio. more ...

Do you have cows on your roads? Well, not really. But sometimes you do see the odd bovine ambling contentedly through dense traffic. But yes, we do have dogs on the roads, and some pigs… and the odd cat or even a tribe of monkeys. more ...

After two weeks in the lovely city of Hamburg it is high time that we put aside some preconceptions. For example that Germans are not friendly or that Germans work with clockwork precision or that Germans have time for nothing but their work. It’s all untrue. more ...

For us Hamburgers, Hamburg is, of course, the world’s most beautiful city. But how is it for someone who practically comes from the other end of the world? Natraj Suryanarayana from the Indian city of Hyderabad, who is working for four weeks at MOPO, gave it some consideration and wrote down the things that fascinate and amaze him about Hamburg. more ...