studio137 – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:43:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 Hides and Roses http://globalistan.org/hides-and-roses/ http://globalistan.org/hides-and-roses/#respond Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:43:43 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=685 I have been India for the past month researching a planned film on the energy crisis in India (more on that later). While visiting Kanpur, India’s most polluted city, as well as the center of it’s leather export trade, I came across the story of a village on the outskirts of the city that I […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/hides-and-roses/feed/ 0 “Certainly Not The Ballet We Learned In School” http://globalistan.org/certainly-not-the-ballet-we-learned-in-school/ http://globalistan.org/certainly-not-the-ballet-we-learned-in-school/#respond Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:58:44 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=669 A few very interesting videos  of ‘belly dancing’ from the turn of the 19th-20th century have recently turned up on YouTube. Belly dancing was, according to most reports, first seen in Europe during the Paris Exposition Universale in 1889 (the same where the Eiffel Tower was presented). See this very interesting dramatized video of the […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/certainly-not-the-ballet-we-learned-in-school/feed/ 0 Ghosts of the Year Past http://globalistan.org/ghosts-of-the-year-past/ http://globalistan.org/ghosts-of-the-year-past/#respond Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:15:46 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=663 I don’t want to be cynical about the new year, but there is too much from last year that 2011 needs to live down. Over the past week, when I was nursing a fever and recovering from year end events, I looked back at the news and realized that Globalistanis had little to cheer about […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/ghosts-of-the-year-past/feed/ 0 FC Chechnya- how it happened http://globalistan.org/fc-chechnya-how-it-happened/ http://globalistan.org/fc-chechnya-how-it-happened/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:19:22 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=654 Last week we called wraps on a film project, after six grueling months of production. Aside from all the things mentioned in the previous post, this film occupied my life in the last few months, and it gives me immense satisfaction to say that we are at the end. ‘ FC Chechnya’ began as a […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/fc-chechnya-how-it-happened/feed/ 1 Hiatus http://globalistan.org/hiatus/ http://globalistan.org/hiatus/#respond Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:16:47 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/hiatus/ Visa issues have once again thrown this blogger into a deep mess. Dealing with bureaucracy everyday for the past few weeks has led to a sort of mind-paralysis that makes any writing impossible. That’s the reason for this hiatus, and it looks like it shall continue for another week or so. Big ranting post on […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/hiatus/feed/ 0 Why the Auto-Rickshaws of Delhi Should Stay http://globalistan.org/why-the-auto-rickshaws-of-delhi-should-stay/ http://globalistan.org/why-the-auto-rickshaws-of-delhi-should-stay/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:21:39 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=529 (Guest post by Simon Harding) As every Delhite knows, taking an auto journey in the capital is not a pleasant experience. Drivers speed off at the very mention of your home or office, leaving you stranded on the roadside. When an auto-wallah finally agrees to go where you want, he steadfastly refuses to run by […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/why-the-auto-rickshaws-of-delhi-should-stay/feed/ 2 How to reconcile radical sentiments with everyday reality in the West? http://globalistan.org/how-to-reconcile-radical-sentiments-with-everyday-reality-in-the-west/ http://globalistan.org/how-to-reconcile-radical-sentiments-with-everyday-reality-in-the-west/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:05:45 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=471 Daniel Cooper writes in on the dilemmas of radicalism, LA and post-post-graduate life. Nearly six months have passed since I returned from my two years in the Erasmus Mundus program in London and Leipzig to the comforts and luxuries of my home city of Los Angeles, a sprawling, coastal metropolis in the most powerful economy […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/how-to-reconcile-radical-sentiments-with-everyday-reality-in-the-west/feed/ 5 Spiritual & Financial Guidance for the Penniless but Pure at Heart http://globalistan.org/spiritual-financial-guidance-for-the-penniless-but-pure-at-heart/ http://globalistan.org/spiritual-financial-guidance-for-the-penniless-but-pure-at-heart/#respond Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:40:32 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=390 The beginning of the New Year can be a time of changes and a time of re-assessment of life’s decisions. In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, BB tells his daughter: For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/spiritual-financial-guidance-for-the-penniless-but-pure-at-heart/feed/ 0 Winter School 2009 & the Buttered Cat Paradox http://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/ http://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:00:32 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=338 Winter School 2009 took place last weekend in the national park of the Karkonosze Mountains, Poland. The First Years and anybody else who chose to attend, were put up in two huts, Samotnia and Strzecha, located 500 metres from each other, with the nearest city of Karpacz situated a good 1.5 hour walk through the […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/feed/ 1 Global Warming http://globalistan.org/global-warming/ http://globalistan.org/global-warming/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:46:51 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=269 Innovative or thoughtful?

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