Razib Khan | August 31, 2011
Estimating a date of mixture of ancestral South Asian populations: Linguistic and genetic studies have shown that most Indian groups have ancestry from two genetically divergent populations, Ancestral North Indians (ANI) and Ancestral South Indians (ASI). However, the date of mixture still remains unknown. We analyze genome-wide data from about 60 South Asian groups using [...]
Razib Khan | August 31, 2011
India Measures Itself Against a China That Doesn’t Notice: “Indians are obsessed with China, but the Chinese are paying too little attention to India,” said Minxin Pei, an economist who was born in China and who writes a monthly column for The Indian Express, a national daily newspaper. (No Indian economists are known to have [...]
Zachary Latif | August 30, 2011
But as interesting was the appearance of his sister, Priyanka, who came to parliament to hear her brother speak. A decade ago the chattering classes of Delhi speculated that it was bright Priyanka, rather than Rahul, who would make the dynasty’s more compelling heir. Then she backed away from politics and made clear that her [...]
Zachary Latif | August 30, 2011
Pakistan ahead of India in Graduation Rates at all Levels: Riaz Haq has a great piece on how Pakistan’s higher education sector seems to be holding up. I take Sahar’s point that comparing India and Pakistan is counter-productive but since everybody does it; might as well join in (also Indo-Pak seems to be more accurately [...]
Zachary Latif | August 29, 2011
Zack’s solution to the Eid dates; make Eid a 3-day celebration (day before, day during and day after) that no one can fast on. For the extra day of fasting; anyone who wants to can make up for it after Eid with 2 extra fasts (in case they overate at Eid). I stole this Dancing [...]
omar | August 29, 2011
The city of Karachi, an erstwhile Sindhi and British city, converted into a North Indian migrant enclave in 1947, and now increasingly disputed between different competing gangs, is seeing a frenzy of media coverage (at least in Pakistan). Two possibly related issues have exploded on to the scene: 1. Reports that Scotland yard and the [...]
Zachary Latif | August 29, 2011
I finally understand what the whole Anna Hazare demands are about. Its a great article (Indian Hazare Corruption) in the New Statesman and while its tilted against Mahatma Hazare; I still think its a very good read (it also brings to mind how spectacularly wrong Nehru, Patel & perhaps even Mahatma Gandhi were wrong in [...]
omar | August 28, 2011
Pakistan’s only true living hero – The Washington Po Edhi is an absolute miracle. His network extends through the length and breadth of the country and the sheer volume of good works done by the Edhi foundation is so huge it would be unbelievable if it wasnt there for all to see. Like Gandhi, he [...]
omar | August 27, 2011
Dozens killed in Pakistan border attack – Central & South Asia – Al Jazeera English. Now Pakistan officially wants NATO and the ANA to launch operations against “safe havens”. The same Pakistanis also want NATO to leave and ANA to make a peace deal with the Taliban. These two aims are mildly contradictory. Its not [...]
omar | August 26, 2011
The following exchange is from our email group, but it seemed worth sharing: Actually some middle class Pakistanis are already questioning the deep state version of this “theory” and its associated “strategic imperatives” and MANY find the Zaid Hamid level BS a total joke. I know it seems hard. But things change. Most Pakistanis still [...]
Omar is a Pakistani-American with an interest in history. He also moderates the Asiapeace discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asiapeace/
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