culture – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:13:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 Cricket, and What it Tells Us About the World http://globalistan.org/cricket-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-world/ http://globalistan.org/cricket-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-world/#respond Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:13:21 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=538 The final of the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was played last Sunday, bringing to an end over 6 weeks of cricket craze in India. From the very beginning the whole thing seemed like a carnival, closer to Bollywood, with its song and dance routines and celebrity presence, than the genteel- village […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/cricket-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-world/feed/ 0 “Some Indians Find it Tough to Go Home Again” http://globalistan.org/some-indians-find-it-tough-to-go-home-again/ http://globalistan.org/some-indians-find-it-tough-to-go-home-again/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:49 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=279 Blogging and general online activity has been slow since I am in Brussles nowadays looking for work, but I naturally paused and clicked when this headline from the NYT popped up on my RSS-feed. This article talked mostly about how Indian expat-professionals found themselves disillusioned and disappointed by working culture back home . It provides […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/some-indians-find-it-tough-to-go-home-again/feed/ 1 Culture Choc http://globalistan.org/culture-choc/ http://globalistan.org/culture-choc/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:06:37 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/culture-choc/ Having spent most of the last three months in South Africa, a minor culture shock was to be expected when I arrived back in the Netherlands last week. As beautiful a country as South Africa is, it is still dealing with the aftermath of apartheid; while racial segregation has legally been abolished, it persists in […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/culture-choc/feed/ 0 Between Same Sex Contact and Identity: Politics of Homosexuality in Contemporary World http://globalistan.org/between-same-sex-contact-and-identity-politics-of-homosexuality-in-contemporary-world/ http://globalistan.org/between-same-sex-contact-and-identity-politics-of-homosexuality-in-contemporary-world/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:35:48 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=92 In an article published in this blog ( ‘Delhi out of the Closet’ on 07.05.2009), we have learned that New Delhi’s higher court “overturned the gay sex ban.” The article says: “Homosexuality became illegal in 1861 when, under British rule, Section 377 of the Indian penal court was passed that prohibited ‘carnal intercourse against the […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/between-same-sex-contact-and-identity-politics-of-homosexuality-in-contemporary-world/feed/ 0 ‘This Isn’t Us’ http://globalistan.org/this-isnt-us/ http://globalistan.org/this-isnt-us/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:47:58 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=46 Check out this video produced by a number of Pakistani pop-musicians that is all the rave in Pakistan. ‘Yeh Hum nahin’ which means ‘This is not us’ in Urdu is a song aimed at condemning terrorism. What fascinates me about this is the attempt at redefinition of identity that goes in procliaming ‘this is not […]

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