Stories from 6 March 2007
South Asia: Holi, Wedding excess, Bollywood, Snow, Bus etiquette, ordination of children
Happy Holi to our readers. The Hindu Spring festival of colors is one of the most popular traditional festivals in India and Nepal. South Asia Biz reports that the Indian...
Bahrain: Satan Worshippers Rock at Concerts
Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif goes on a rampage against a local newspaper for publishing an article on Satan worshipping amongst students who attend rock concerts, “based completely on unsubstantiated...
Bahrain: Journalist Fined
Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif is livid that a Bahraini journalist has been fined by a court for writing about a fight, without naming those involved in it. “If this...
India: The budget and the media
Ultrabrown on the depth and length of media coverage devoted to the Indian Budget exercise. “So the wall-to-wall media attention to the Indian budget last week struck me as bizarre....
Arabisc: An Open letter to the Saudi Labour Minister
Saudi Arabian blogger Raed Al Saeed has written an open letter to his Labour Minister Dr Ghazi Al Gosaibi, who is also a distinguished writer and diplomat, and posted it...
Sri Lanka: Children and Religion
Dilispeak responds to some bloggers by asserting that children taking to the religious order as monks is not entirely negative. “What i think both of them forgot is that there...
Pakistan: Kite Flying and Crimes
Light Within on those punished for breaking kite flying rules. “What is the point here? Whereas big guns can get way with almost anything, it is most dreadful for any...
Nepal: Going Abroad
Deepak's Diary on youth who go abroad to support themselves and their families. “Twenty four year old Chandra is leaving for Malaysia very soon. He is one of hundreds of...
Bangladesh: On South Asia, Literature and Identity
black and gray in conversation with author Sikeena Karmali. “I do believe that English has become a part of the South Asian linguistic identity in that South Asians have very...
Haiti: Goat on a Plane
New Haiti-based Haitian blogger (and published author) Nancy Chapoteau of Notedor.com writes about her strange encounter with a strange plane fellow on a flight from Cap Haitian to Port-au-Prince [Fr]:...
Malawian Musings: Diaspora, Internet-based Radio, Nigerian Movies, Stray Dogs, Silicon Valley dreams, and Muluzi’s comeback
The Malawian blogosphere has been abuzz with news of Malawian initiatives involving radio broadcasting and the Internet; Malawians in the diaspora; personal narratives about dislikes, trips and city issues; and...
Global Voices is seeking an Outreach Director
Global Voices is seeking a full-time Outreach Director. The outreach director will coordinate Global Voices's efforts in promoting blogging, podcasting, videocasting, photoblogging and other forms of citizen media throughout the...
Ukraine: “Pidmanula, Pidvela”
Ukraine List posts a comprehensive entry on the extremely popular Ukrainian folk song: Pidmanula, pidvela. Links to video and audio of the song's various performances, as well as the lyrics...
Ukraine: A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga
Olechko writes about A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga, a Ukrainian publishing house that produces wonderfully-illustrated books “for kids from 2 to 102″ years of age.
Ukraine: Yulia in the States; Re-privatization
Foreign Notes translates a piece on Yulia Tymoshenko's recent visit to the United States and writes about the possible re-privatization of the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant.
Russia: “Torture by Visa”
Darkness at Noon shares several near-horror stories on getting and maintaining a Russian visa: over the years, the purely bureaucratic beast tormenting the blogger has metamorphosed into “the academo-bureacratic beast.”
Russia: Moscow in FT
Sean's Russia Blog reads a piece by FT's Moscow correspondent, a Russian repat looking for “some semblance of his past” in today's Moscow.
China: spring travel photo essay
Lung have a photo essay on spring travel with rural migrant in China, telling the hard life of peasants (zh).
What Salvadoran bloggers are saying — about murders in Guatemala
Recent events involving the murder of four Salvadorans in Guatemala have dominated the blogosphere in El Salvador. On February 19, three members of the Central American parliament (PARLACEN) from El...
China: different versions of Tianhou
Maryannodonnell explains the different versions (official and unofficial, urban and rural) of Tianhou's legend and cultural practice in Chiwan Tianhou Temple in Shenzhen.
China: please forget Lei Feng
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI points to survey about Chinese school-children's knowledge of Lei Feng; and translates Chi Li's article arguing that: If you truly want to do good works, please...
