Category Archives: MUMBAI
Roma vs. Gypsy: NYT Copy Fail
(VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP!!!) 3rdWorldImagineer is back today with another instalment of ‘why language matters’. For the record, I am not a PC fascist, but I do think it’s critical to examine how we talk about certain subjects, particularly ones … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, Bibliomania, Economy, India, MUMBAI, The Liberal Media, United Nations
Little Big Things in South Asia part 2—Tata’s Nano and what the 1W is missing
THE NANO IS HERE! Back in the day when I used to read Adbusters, I remember they had a video that depicted the United States as a pig trying to squirm its way out of the map. It was supposed … Continue reading
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3WI Special Report—Why they’re not listening to us
We spout off a lot about human voices and narratives and shit, but I’d rather read a bunch of solid numbers behind a single, strong argument than see another Maya/Fatima/Yelena, etc propped up in front of a camera and poked with a stick until she spills her unimaginably brutal survival story for another wannabe foreign correspondent’s lede. Human beings are the ONLY way to tell a story, especially a foreign story, but only if you treat them like humans instead of units of commoditized suffering. Anything else is just prostitution, and nobody likes a fucking pimp. Continue reading
The Reimagineers, Chapter 11: Sept. 7th, The Coney Island Apocalypse
I’m already several chapters past this, but it felt like a good time to share. Cuz I FELT LIKE IT, motherfuckers CHAPTER 11: SEPT. 7TH, 2008—THE CONEY ISLAND APOCALYPSE: Look up. There in the sky, ten thousand feet straight up … Continue reading
Terrorist, moi? Why the Maya Arulpragasam LTTE-drama is NYT Tiger-shit
The fact that it takes an emphatically pregnant young rapper who samples Bollywood and AK47s, writes songs about Bird Flu and does Day-Glo animal-print schizophrenia as an ethos rapping with Jay-Z on her due date to make us stand up and take notice of a conflict an order of magnitude more deadly than the one in Gaza should say something about us, not her. Continue reading
Slumdog Millionaire
Well, I finally saw it. And read the book. And reviewed the soundtrack (what did you do?). And for the first time in years, I have to say that the movie was a HUGE improvement on Vikas Swarup’s ambitious but … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, it's a small world, MUMBAI
Making sense of Mumbai
Today’s post is inspired in part by the SAJA-coordinated lecture series “Understanding the Mumbai Attacks”, moderated by Rome Hartman, with Mira Kamdar, Mr. Rushdie, and one of this 3rdworldimagineer’s favorite journalists, Mr. Suketu Mehta. The lecture was notable for many … Continue reading
OMFG, A.R. Rahman/M.I.A. collaboration
If you’ve been following the Slumdog Millionare phenomenon, you may already know that venerable Indian composer and Bollywood kingmaker A.R. Rahman has collaborated with Sri Lankan grime-goddess M.I.A. on an original song called O…SAYA for a the Slumdog Millionare (aka … Continue reading
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A very moving letter from Rabbi Avi Rabin of Chabad
B”H Dear Friends, Our hearts are shattered at the news from Mumbai where Rabbi Gabi and Rivka Holtzberg, were among those murdered in the terrorist attack on the Chabad House there. And tonight their little son Moshe’le will mark his … Continue reading
UPDATE: Chabad Mumbai–A Prayer for Baby Moshe
A tiny piece of the Mumbai mess that might be interesting to readers of the tribe. Rabbi Shmotkin of Chabad and his host Ari Goldman are speaking on blogtalk radio with Dean Sree about the Chabad house still under siege … Continue reading
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