Global Voices Online

India's Carnatic Music may have some misogynistic streaks. Gupta-vati takes a closer look at the famous Carnatic Music composer and reads into the lyrics to understand his perception of women.

Style Station on the launch of lag-mag Maxim in India, and the immediate controversy it finds itself in.

Adda on “Shah AMS Kibria, a parliamentarian, a politician, a former bureaucrat, a diplomat, a former finance minister” who was injured by a grenade thrown on him, and died in a few hours in January 2005.

More violence in Nepal. United We Blog! brings “Images from Tuesday night’s Tansen, Palpa attack where At least 15 people including 7 policemen, 4 Maoists and 4 soldiers have been killed. Pictures speak.”

A photopost on Miani Hor - a hamlet by the sea in Pakistan at The Organic Brew.

In the aftermath of the Blair government's humiliating defeat over a bill to combat religious hatred, Jonathan Ali compares Trinidad & Tobago's political system with that of Great Britain, calling the former “a faux-Westminster system of government”.

Mr. Behi, Iran based blogger, writes ” I do not like to write about this nuclear stuff that much because news and media are doing so a lot. I never loved war because I saw a missile exploded 500m from my apartment killing one of my best friends, I was 7. Try to feel standing in a long line to buy some milk for your little brother to feed. Stay out of your comfort and try to feel what sanctions mean”.

What's China's hottest export? Language! says Horse's Mouth. “I always laugh to myself when I speak with fellow business majors and they tell me they're studying a language such as French or Italian for their required second language. What's the point?” Chinese is the tongue of the future.

Michael Turton picks apart global know-it-all Thomas Friedman's myths, mistaken conclusions and mischaracterizations of Taiwan so as to shoehorn it into his popular theories. “Friedman's uninformed screed highlights a desperate need for newspapers to draw on the writing of recognized experts in their fields, and more importantly, for academics to produce more works for popular audiences.” Amen to that.