immigration – 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 Does Europe have a problem with Islam? http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/ http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:13:05 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=480 The last couple of months have seen intense debate on European society’s openness towards Muslim immigrants. Following the Swiss ban on minarets and the French proposal to ban the burqa in public life, fears have been expressed over the exclusion of Muslims from European social and political life. Politicians have gained enormous capital by channeling […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/feed/ 6 “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 Freddy ‘Mustapha’ Mercury http://globalistan.org/freddy-mustapha-mercury/ http://globalistan.org/freddy-mustapha-mercury/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:06:35 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=178 Check out Queen’s brilliant, hysterical song  ‘Mustapha’. I could not be sure, but Freddie Mercury is singing in Arabic, Persian and English, mashing names of prophets with ‘As-salam-alalikum’. The song is part of the Queen’s 1978 album Jazz, and they performed it live regularly. In live performances, Mercury would often sing the opening vocals of […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/freddy-mustapha-mercury/feed/ 0 Ian Buruma on Enlightenment, Language and Multiculturalism http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/ http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:10:38 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=135 I spent a large part of today watching Prof. Ian Buruma’s brilliant lecture series at Princeton university entitled ‘No Divine Rights: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents’ which I am posting here. Buruma is a scholar of great versatility. His subjects range from a fictional-biography of an Indian cricketer-prince, to works on European and Japanese […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/feed/ 0 “I loved him…once the World Trade Center came down, I changed my mind” http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/ http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:51 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=61 This week two stories related to racist discrimination caught my eye. The first of these is from Dresden, not too far from a our beloved Leipzig, within a region that has been host to a spate of racist attacks. It was while Marwa el-Sherbini was in the dock recalling how the accused had insulted her […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/feed/ 3 A World Beyond Stereotypes: A life in Leipzig, Germany http://globalistan.org/a-world-beyond-stereotypes-a-life-in-leipzig-germany/ http://globalistan.org/a-world-beyond-stereotypes-a-life-in-leipzig-germany/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:53:39 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=49 Thereafter I walked to the Hauptbahnhof and a drunken young man passed me and shouted “hail Hitler” and it was at that precise moment, that I thought to myself welcome to Germany the place of Hitler (hoping secretly that Hitler would stand up from his grave to protest against me being here), the Second World War, The Berlin Wall and every other historical sight that I made a point of seeing … This is why I left South Africa, and I was secretly satisfied by this young mans outburst

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