Fahad Mustafa – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:04:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 A Bitter City http://globalistan.org/a-bitter-city/ http://globalistan.org/a-bitter-city/#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:04:57 +0000 http://globalistan.org/cms/?p=731 My cousin Faizy, who lives in Kanpur’s infamous Chamanganj neighbourhood describes the city’s residents as “kadwe log” (bitter people). By this he is not referring to the cynical and nihilistic bitterness that is supposed to set in with age and misfortune, rather using local slang for a mixture of hardiness, street smartness and chicanery. Bitter […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/a-bitter-city/feed/ 0 Two Shootings http://globalistan.org/two-shootings/ http://globalistan.org/two-shootings/#respond Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:10:03 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=674 Two random acts of violence against public figures in two corners of the globe took place withing four days of each other. Jared Loughner shot and critically injured Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona; Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri killed Salman Taseer, whom he was assigned to protect.  Both killers  acted on their own, both have become public […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/two-shootings/feed/ 0 And We’re Back! http://globalistan.org/and-were-back/ http://globalistan.org/and-were-back/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:00:34 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=648 A long hiatus, forced by circumstances, comes to an end and Globalistan looks to start another turn at the crease. The past few months have been ridiculously complicated and frustrating for me, leaving no time for Globalistan. To cut a long story short, I was denied travel documents by the Canadian Embassy in Vienna to […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/and-were-back/feed/ 0 “It’s all about death in India these days…” http://globalistan.org/its-all-about-death-in-india-these-days/ http://globalistan.org/its-all-about-death-in-india-these-days/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:11:31 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=621 Life is a little complicated right now, and this means that blogging has been slow. This shall continue to be the case for the next few days. However, I will try and find sometime in between crisis to come back here and talk about a lot of things that I have been wanting to put […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/its-all-about-death-in-india-these-days/feed/ 1 Arroz con Arroz http://globalistan.org/arroz-con-arroz/ http://globalistan.org/arroz-con-arroz/#respond Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:41:32 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=608 Visa troubles are (hopefully) safely out of the way, and that means I am able to finally update you on the Globalistan CD launch in Berlin the week before. Johannes Heretsch, Berlin based DJ, got in touch with Globalistan in April to co-operate on a ‘world-music’ CD. Being huge fans of independent releases, we were […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/arroz-con-arroz/feed/ 0 The Joys of Mitfahrgelegenheit http://globalistan.org/the-joys-of-mitfahrgelegenheit/ http://globalistan.org/the-joys-of-mitfahrgelegenheit/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:36:48 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=589 Backpackers and students traveling across Europe would no doubt be aware of Mitfahrgelegenheit. The German based car-pooling service is one of the cheapest ways to travel around in the Schengen zone, and also one of the most entertaining. I used to ‘mitfahr’ pretty often a couple of years ago, but since then short trips to […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/the-joys-of-mitfahrgelegenheit/feed/ 1 Globalistan Festival http://globalistan.org/globalistan-festival/ http://globalistan.org/globalistan-festival/#respond Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:39:50 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=583 Come Join: Globalistan CD Release

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]]> http://globalistan.org/globalistan-festival/feed/ 0 Democracy, Torture and Zhou Zuohai http://globalistan.org/democracy-torture-and-zuo-zuohai/ http://globalistan.org/democracy-torture-and-zuo-zuohai/#respond Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:31:58 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=566 On 31st May, the Chinese government released guidelines that banned the admissibility of evidence obtained under torture in criminal convictions. This came a few weeks after the revelation of the seemingly bizarre, yet not completely uncommon, case of Zhou Zuohai.  Zhuo was released after being imprisoned for 11 years in Shanqqi, on charges of murder, […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/democracy-torture-and-zuo-zuohai/feed/ 0 “It is more horrible to wait for your killers than to be killed” http://globalistan.org/it-is-more-horrible-to-wait-for-your-killers-than-to-be-killed/ http://globalistan.org/it-is-more-horrible-to-wait-for-your-killers-than-to-be-killed/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 17:41:51 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=560 (An edited version of this article appeared in Caravan India today) When I met Aslan Daudov, a 30-year-old Chechen asylum seeker whose name has been changed here on his request, he was afraid that he would be deported within a couple of hours to Poland. He was not as concerned about Poland’s negligible acceptance rate […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/it-is-more-horrible-to-wait-for-your-killers-than-to-be-killed/feed/ 1 Of an Englishman True http://globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/ http://globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/#respond Wed, 19 May 2010 10:02:06 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=553 Brilliant alphabet book from the days of Brittania.  Printed in Holland in 1899. Available here via (the ever entertaining) Chapati Mystery But then there’s this: And you wonder if Mrs. Ernest Ames is being tongue and cheek…

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