February 2014
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the Sanskrit tongue was chilled at 500metres
Notes on a book’s geographic account of Eurasia, including how Indian civilisation was a lowland phenomenon, Sanskrit’s reach, and Pakistan and Iraq as illogically drawn states.
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Institutional Racism affects Sikh Marathon Runner
An ESPN profile of Fauja Singh, the Sikh marathon runner who ran his first marathon in his eighties and kept racing past 100, posted under a title about institutional racism.
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Pakistan; negotiations and operations..and Islamicate rationality
The author argues that Pakistan’s farcical talks with the TTP, a gambit meant to expose the Taliban before a military operation, backfired by legitimising them, and links this to a…
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Iran’s geostrategic importance
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Why Islam Haunts India
The poster shares photographed pages from Robert Kaplan’s chapter on India, ‘Why Islam Haunts India’, calling it a must-read on subcontinental geopolitics.
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