http://www.globalistan.org Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.globalistan.org/hiatus/ http://www.globalistan.org/hiatus/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:16:47 +0000 admin http://www.globalistan.org/hiatus/ http://www.globalistan.org/hiatus/feed/ 0 http://www.globalistan.org/its-all-about-death-in-india-these-days/ http://www.globalistan.org/its-all-about-death-in-india-these-days/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:11:31 +0000 fm 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 out there. First amongst these is my friend Shivam Vij’s take-down of the Indian media’s coverage of the killings in Kashmir of demonstrators when police and paramilitary forces opened fire on them. The dead were mostly Kahmiri youth between 9 and 22 years. Shivam points out [...]]]> http://www.globalistan.org/its-all-about-death-in-india-these-days/feed/ 1 http://www.globalistan.org/arroz-con-arroz/ http://www.globalistan.org/arroz-con-arroz/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:41:32 +0000 fm 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 only too happy to co-operate. ‘Sounds from Globalistan’ had its CD release in Berlin’s Admiralspalast, with live performances from artists like Cherif Hamiche, Nomad Soundsysem, Meriem Hassan Group and Mil Santos. All of these guys are featured on the CD, and are awesome performers. Globalistan also had [...]]]> http://www.globalistan.org/arroz-con-arroz/feed/ 1 http://www.globalistan.org/the-joys-of-mitfahrgelegenheit/ http://www.globalistan.org/the-joys-of-mitfahrgelegenheit/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:36:48 +0000 fm http://www.globalistan.org/?p=589 http://www.globalistan.org/the-joys-of-mitfahrgelegenheit/feed/ 1 http://www.globalistan.org/globalistan-festival/ http://www.globalistan.org/globalistan-festival/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:39:50 +0000 fm http://www.globalistan.org/?p=583 Come Join: Globalistan CD Release ]]> http://www.globalistan.org/globalistan-festival/feed/ 0 http://www.globalistan.org/democracy-torture-and-zuo-zuohai/ http://www.globalistan.org/democracy-torture-and-zuo-zuohai/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:31:58 +0000 fm http://www.globalistan.org/?p=566 http://www.globalistan.org/democracy-torture-and-zuo-zuohai/feed/ 0 http://www.globalistan.org/it-is-more-horrible-to-wait-for-your-killers-than-to-be-killed/ http://www.globalistan.org/it-is-more-horrible-to-wait-for-your-killers-than-to-be-killed/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 17:41:51 +0000 fm 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 of Chechen asylum seekers; but was terrified of a much worse fate: that he might be kidnapped by agents of the Chechen government, tortured and killed. We met in a crowded café in Vienna’s Westbahnhof train station. Midway through our conversation Aslan indicated that we should leave. [...]]]> http://www.globalistan.org/it-is-more-horrible-to-wait-for-your-killers-than-to-be-killed/feed/ 0 http://www.globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/ http://www.globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 10:02:06 +0000 fm 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… ]]> http://www.globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/feed/ 0 http://www.globalistan.org/life-of-a-nomad/ http://www.globalistan.org/life-of-a-nomad/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 21:36:48 +0000 carms http://www.globalistan.org/life-of-a-nomad/ http://www.globalistan.org/life-of-a-nomad/feed/ 0 http://www.globalistan.org/cricket-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-world/ http://www.globalistan.org/cricket-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-world/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:13:21 +0000 fm 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 green image of cricket in England. The razmatazz is essential to the success of the IPL, as it has essentially transformed a hitherto visually unspectacular game, into a spectacle that is accessible to a greater variety of people. It is the richest cricket tournament in [...]]]> http://www.globalistan.org/cricket-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-world/feed/ 0