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22/04/2024

From the archive.

Words & Images by Sidra Altaf |

The dhobi ghaat near Bansawala Bazaar is one of the oldest dhobi ghats located in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. Aziz Hussain, an 84-year-old Muslim, had been engaged in the occupation of washing clothes even before the partition of the Indian subcontinent. His family migrated to Pakistan and continued making a living out of their ancestral occupation, but faced a number of challenges along the way as an immigrant in Lahore. Ever since their migration, they had been living at the dhobi ghat. Aziz Hussain told us that he does not have hope for the future of himself and his family, since the government does not support them at all and both their place of living and where they wash clothes have sewage problems, causing insanitary living and working conditions. Working as a washerman at the dhobi ghaat does not generate a consistent source of income, therefore, their children have started working elsewhere and have chosen teaching as their profession. Allah Wali, his 82 years old sister, has memories of Hindu-Muslim families living together in India before the partition.

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26/02/2024

Call for Submissions | Magazine Issue 03

Theme: The Beauty of Everyday Things

For issue 03, we are inspired by the writings of Soetsu Yanagi on the aesthetic value inherent in the ordinary. Yanagi, a prominent figure in the Mingei (Folk Craft) movement, was inspired by the work of artisans that he encountered on his lifelong travels through Japan and Korea. He reminded us to pause, observe, and find profound beauty in the simplicity of the everyday.

In this upcoming issue, we invite contributors worldwide to explore the ordinary wonders surrounding us, celebrating the timeless elegance found in everyday objects, customs, and moments of quiet contemplation.

We are looking for photo essays, personal essays, poetry, and profiles/interviews illuminating the beauty of the mundane. We want pieces that capture the essence of everyday things and invite readers to rediscover the magic within the ordinary. We welcome submissions related to home, garden/nature, food, and traditions that showcase cultural and creative heritage in different places around the world. Whether it’s the gentle rhythm of daily customs, the beauty of blooming flowers, or the quiet dignity of objects worn by time, we believe that every aspect of life holds the potential for beauty and meaning.

Please visit https://globallyrooted.com for more details on the types of submissions we would love to see.

Deadline for submissions: 26 March 2024, 11:59 EST

We look forward to receiving your unique perspectives, insights, interpretations, and creative expressions that capture “The Beauty of Everyday Things.”

10/02/2024

A New Chapter for the Globally Rooted Magazine. Scroll through for all the details —>

We are still celebrating cultural and creative heritage around the world. We will now focus on exploring this sense of place & connection through the topics of home, gardens/nature, food and traditions. We are calling all you writers & photographers who explore culture through food & culinary heritage, nature, home & architecture, traditions, the concept of slow living (and everything in between) to be part of the Globally Rooted community.

We still invite photo essays, personal essays and poetry and will now also accept thoughtful articles and profiles/interviews. We will publish two issues annually.

The Issue 03 Call for Submissions is coming next week! We look forward to seeing your contributions!

We will be introducing a few other things throughout the year so make sure you follow us here or sign up for the monthly Globally Rooted Letters via www.globallyrooted.com

You can take a look at the ‘About’ page and ‘Submissions’ page at https://globallyrooted.com

Thank you for being here 🤍

30/12/2023

Thank you to our Issue 02 contributors for sharing a part of their world’s.

Stay tuned for the theme for Issue 03. Coming soon!

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27/12/2023

As 2023 comes to an end, a beautiful contemplation by T. Ardian Roring on Narimo ing Pandum – the Javanese Recipe for A Happier Life.

Considering how precious happiness is yet how difficult it is for people to fully immerse in it, societies and civilizations since ages ago have been trying to decode the secret formula to experiencing bliss in day-to-day life. One of the recipes to living life happily that many people might not yet hear of is Narimo ing Pandum – a philosophical guidance taught by ancient Javanese people of Indonesia that is still passed down from generation to generation up to now.

Narimo and pandum means “to accept” and “gift” respectively, while ing is a Javanese preposition similar to “towards”. To put it simply, Narimo ing Pandum can be defined as an act of accepting what life has given to us sincerely and wholeheartedly (Alfianto, 2021). One essential thing to note, though, people who practice this teaching agree that “to accept” does not necessarily mean “not trying to achieve what we desire.” In other words, Narimo ing Pandum does teach us to embrace whatever life throws at us and get on with it; however, it also expects us to strive and give our best in order to achieve the life we want despite circumstances that may not seem ideal.

Excerpt from magazine Issue 02
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23/12/2023

"Love through food" by Sarah Salman in Issue 02 of the magazine.

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I spent years listening to my daado (grandmother) talk about lost connections and deranged relatives she did not speak to. Of people who were once part of every gathering, but had no place in our home now. And yet, every year on Eid, those same relatives would step foot in our home and it was like all the anger was washed away with a warm cup of tea. “Have some chai”, would translate to: I miss your presence in our home, “don’t go home without dessert” would mean, let us not part without mending what was broken.

It takes a lot of cooking to know the language of love. I know this because my mother spent years learning the language. Being a Filipina who moved to Pakistan, Urdu wasn’t her strongest forte; but her way of chopping vegetables a certain way for my father, making potato cutlets, topped with crushed coriander and peeling sour Kiwis with a sprinkle of sugar for me always said more than words ever could. Every time she would sprinkle salt over a scrumptious pot of butter chicken, it was like she was sprinkling her own love into it.

11/12/2023

They say it takes a village to raise a child.

Here, it takes an island.

Read full poem in Magazine Issue 02 via link in bio

Words by Christine Mary Adolf

17/11/2023

I have always been enchanted by nature. Flowers, especially. In almost all my childhood pictures, I see a precious bunch of wildflowers clutched in my hand or fragrant jasmines adorning my hair. Now, years later, I prefer to claim their beauty by simply photographing them.

Older now, I yearn to travel to places where flowers grow in abundance. Like the Lavender routes in Provence, the rolling hills of Baby Blue-Eyes in Japan, and the sunflower fields in Tuscany. The seas of Tulips in Holland, the endless meadows of alpine flowers blanketing the Himalayan valleys, and closer home, the Kas Plateau, which comes alive during the Monsoons. However, the harried everyday has a way of postponing dreams to a distant someday.

Words & Images by Priya Mallic

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02/09/2023

My mother of 82 years and I, with my twin girls now 7.5 years old - decided to move to Merida Mexico into a house I designed and built during 2019/2020. The experience as it comes from the inside of one’s own being and diving deep within takes true grit to not only finish but to begin.

I designed and built a house from the ground up - in the architectural wonder within the Mayan capital of The Yucatan.

The hard limestone base of The Yucatan acts as a foundation of powerful feminine force but also as a door that opens into the many passageways of the 10,000 + cenotes underground by way of exploring one's own choice and personal eye-opening freewill.

Words & Images by Robin Weiss |

Excerpt from Issue 02, Globally Rooted magazine.
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22/08/2023

In the seminal work 'The Gift', the Sociologist Marcel Mauss argued that giving and receiving are at the centre of what makes human culture. Its reciprocity forms the very social threads that weave a community together, and individuals to one another.

The Mango Juice is a Needle, and We’re the Thread; or, The Non-Transactional Ethics of Iraqi Karam (or, gheira)

Excerpt from Magazine Issue 02 on Lifestyle Philosophies.

Words by Arran Walshe |

Read full essay here: https://globallyrooted.com/arran-walshe-the-mango-juice-is-a-needle-and-we-are-the-thread

17/07/2023

If you have ever been fortunate enough to visit Goa, which is heaven on earth, it may surprise you that in the afternoons, there isn’t a single shop open, nor a local inhabitant in sight. A gentle hush blankets the landscape, the contented sigh of an entire state, partaking in the blessed ritual of siesta.

The afternoon siesta forms only one part of the Goan philosophy of sussegad. The word comes from the Portuguese sussegado, which translates to ‘quiet.’ But the concept itself refers to the relaxed leisure that abounds in Goa, to the laid-back attitude of Goans, to the sense of personal contentment that prevails here. To truly experience sussegad, it’s not enough to visit Goa. You must stay here for a while.

Come with me to my grandparent’s village in south Goa. As a child, I spent the summer holidays here, every single year. Stay with us here, for a week or two. Like me, you may find that you never want to leave.

Excerpt from Issue 02.

Sussegad by Nimisha Kantharia | .joy

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07/07/2023

Excerpt from Issue 02

The Girl From Geraldine.
Words by Harley Bell |

Poetry | Issue 02

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Geraldine, who will pour the wine at the local?

After the children grow up and dream of Wellington.

Who will come back for the holidays?

While the birds still flock to the powerlines.

While the water still flows in the river, Waihi.

Will you tell me another story

about being a child of Canterbury

before the forests became estates

before the cheese makers became millionaires.

Will you tell me about the girl

that danced

with sequins sewn to her jacket?

26/06/2023

This particular neighborhood is very special to me because it is where Julio Cortázar, my favorite writer from Argentina, used to live. The neighborhood feels very magical and is very quiet. There is a hopscotch painted on the same street where Cortázar used to live in honor of his most famous book called Rayuela (Hopscotch in English). Additionally, there is a small place in a park where people can go to leave books and take another in exchange, which is a beautiful tradition. It is called La Maga (she is the protagonist in Rayuela).

Words & Images by Mariela Ordóñez | .photography

Excerpt from Issue 02 of the Globally Rooted magazine.

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19/06/2023

See, I started my journey of growing up as a free range kid (my sister says I was the best free range kid ever!). I could go off and play within my community and it wasn't too much of a big deal as there was almost always some kind of older person around. It was mostly close knit, you knew your neighbours and their kids, and their grandparents. I played where I wanted because everyone knew everyone.

Words by Esnala Banda

Excerpt from Issue 02 of the Globally Rooted magazine on Lifestyle Philosophies.

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12/06/2023

Chinyanja (Language of the Lake)

Words & Image by Harry Wilson Kapatika |

Poetry | Magazine Issue 02

Farmers plough and plough again,

In the dew-filled fields of the elder victuals now departed

And then, once again, returning with the rain.

Only your spirit can ascertain

What is certain beyond argument, and popular unjustified beliefs, dressed up in logical claims.

How then, is the lake so different to the sea, but so clearly the same?

The water droplets recall the birth of new names

And that is, the parable of the sprouting seed,

Baptised in the Black Nyanja like the River Ganges.

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05/06/2023

Living With The Last Potter: A Photo Essay

Words & Images by Ayan Biswas .biswas

Corded ceramics has been one of the fundamental materials for understanding chronologies and cultural interactions. While documenting the existence of this art form in Ladakh, I started living with an old couple, also known to be the last Ladakhi potters family fostering the ancient technique and its earthy connections. The images that developed over time created a deeper understanding of their relationship with the land and coexistence. How the objects in their day to day life defined their identity. It made me question my existence and the very ideas of home and belonging.

Excerpt from Issue 02 of the Globally Rooted magazine

29/05/2023

Communing with nature: Shinrin Yoku

Words & Images by Aditi Yadav

Spring, 2019. In the transcendental moments where one confronts the fragility of life, impermanence of world and fickleness of humans, nothing offers greater comfort than the empathy of philosophy and company of nature, experienced in solitude. As the moon springs to its voluptuous fullness in the spring night sky, I sit on the banks of river Ookagawa in Gumyoji, watching the sakura petals dance in mad joy to kiss the stream gently, onward to an unknown hydrospheric end.

Excerpt from Globally Rooted Magazine Issue 02: Lifestyle Philosophies

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05/05/2023

Issue 02 is here!

A collection of Essays, Poems & Photo Essays about ways of living from (and about) Colombia, South Africa, Iraq, India, Zambia, UK, Argentina, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Japan, Zanzibar.

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16/04/2023

Thank you to all the amazing contributors who shared their stories, poetry, and photo essays in Issue 01 of the Globally Rooted Magazine.
We are inspired!

Issue 01 available via link in bio.

16/04/2023

Figs From Afghanistan: Remembering the Community of Shared Love

As I took the last bite
Of the figs from the Afghani land,
I lost the courage to throw its last packet from my home
Which read, “Made in Afghanistan”

I remember my childhood days
Growing up in the North Indian winters,
When I used to sit warmly in the quilt
With my brother and sister
Together, we took a bite of the lusciously sweet figs
And inserted our small fingers in the center of the round fruit,
Not knowing the trees will witness a crisis
Not knowing who’ll water their roots

Words by Deeksha Sharma |

Excerpt from Magazine Issue 01. Read full poem via link in bio.

11/04/2023

Words and Drawing by Rohit Rao |

The old saying goes, a place is only as good as the people in it. Never has this been a more demonstrable truism, in my mind, than the case of my friend Kadek and his family, owners of Sedap Malam at the small beach village of Lovina, North Bali.

Excerpt from Magazine Issue 01

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07/04/2023

Revisiting Vietnamese Winter Melon Soup

Excerpt from Magazine Issue 01

Words: Priya Isaac

Comfort food really surpasses the realm of food which is familiar and loved. It is also the culinary band aid for rocky emotions that have taken some rough blows. No doubt there are those who may seek solace in comfort booze or comfort retail or what-have-you. As a foodie at heart (and gut, as it turns out) my thoughts turn to food – usually simple, even downright rustic.

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27/03/2023

For more than a year I have been living in a remote bordering village along the North Eastern parts of India. The place is also known to be the home of the Dard tribes, the first inhabitants of Ladakh with Mons of Northern India and the Mongolian nomads from Tibet. Staying with a local family, I had the privilege to experience a saner way of life. I could see the orchards and farms were all taken care of by two sisters, Dolma and Samsket. Rest of their family members worked far from home and visited once every season. Sometimes it felt like the sisters lived in a world of self- contained existence, together alone.

A photo essay from an on-going project about the life of two sisters. Shown through the lifecycle of apricot trees, how their lives adapt and transform like a tree, as it goes through all the seasons.

Photos & Words: Ayan Biswas | .biswas

Excerpt from Issue 01 of the globally rooted magazine.

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27/03/2023

For more than a year I have been living in a remote bordering village along the North Eastern parts of India. The place is also known to be the home of the Dard tribes, the first inhabitants of Ladakh with Mons of Northern India and the Mongolian nomads from Tibet. Staying with a local family, I had the privilege to experience a saner way of life. I could see the orchards and farms were all taken care of by two sisters, Dolma and Samsket.

A short series of photographs from an on-going project about the life of two sisters. Shown through the lifecycle of apricot trees, how their lives adapt and transform like a tree, as it goes through all the seasons.

Words & Images: Ayan Biswas | .biswas

Excerpt from Issue 01 of the globally rooted magazine.

View via link in bio

22/03/2023

Thanks to everyone who sent a submission! So many beautiful stories, photos and poems about lifestyle philosophies from around the world.

A few more hours left until the deadline: 11:59pm EST today

Visit www.globallyrooted.com for submission guidelines.

22/03/2023

17/03/2023

A few more days before the deadline!

Send us your stories, poetry and photo essays about lifestyle philosophies and ways of living in your part of the world to feature in Issue 02.

Accepted submissions receive a small honorarium.

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