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 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 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 “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 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 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 “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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