Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
If nothing else, my participation in the Eurasian Media Forum Conference, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week, showed me that the debate on the ‘mainstream’ media versus the ‘new’ media is alive all over the world. In fact the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council is traveling across continents to discuss the future of journalism, […]
Filed under: Media, New Media, Travel, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: Demotix, EAMF, Eurasian Media Forum, Networked media, NowPublic, World Economic Forum
What Is Progress?
I first saw the Manhattan skyline in the year 2002, and since then, have had an ongoing romance with the city of New York. If I can recall, my initial sense was of having penetrated the magical world of cinema, and to have become part of it. As I walked through the streets lined […]
Filed under: Socio-Economic, Terrorism, Travel | 11 Comments
Tags: Guggenheim, Manhattan, New York, Subway, Tino Sehgal, US
From DXB with Love
She grabs my inner clothing (you know what I mean), yanks at it and releases me with a jerk. Her clear gloves move on before I know it, and they are unrelenting. Let me say, though, that the hands may shift, but the expression remains the same – that of complete ennui. At the end […]
Filed under: Satire, Terrorism, Travel | 9 Comments
Tags: Airport screening, Airport security, Dubai Airport, Pakistan, US
The Gallis of Dilli
I think I have always had the desire, the longing to visit Delhi. It was like being born with a nostalgia for a place I had never seen, and I know that you can only have nostalgia for what you have seen and lost. Having migrated to Karachi from Delhi at the time of the […]
Filed under: Social Issues, Travel | 39 Comments
Tags: Connaught Place, Delhi, India, Pakistan, Pakistan-India relations, Partition
