April 2014

The Ideological War

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Seeking Jaziyah from muslims

The poster argues that Muslim block voting for the Congress is a modern jizya, and has brought backwardness without security. He hopes Muslims will demand both security and progress as…

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Bangladesh war hero is history

On the sale of INS Vikrant, the poster argues India has never written proper history and that the 1971 war should be retold around its victims, mainly Hindus driven out…

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Killer worm reaches the terrible twos

A post on the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL encryption, which let anyone read the memory of vulnerable servers and exposed passwords and keys.

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Did (Indian) muslims win the Kargil war?

A report on Azam Khan’s claim that Muslim soldiers won the Kargil war, with the poster’s hope that moderate Muslims who coexist with others will outweigh those seeking purity.

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Blasphemy laws in the 21st century

The poster says India’s religious-offence laws date from the 19th century and urges intellectuals to defend free speech beyond Hindutva cases, with an article on the culture war facing India…

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Indelible (not quite) ink: Maharajah brand

A report on the Mysore factory that makes the indelible ink used on voters’ fingers around the world, which the poster sees as an Indian technology success.

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Taliban Justice. Then and Now

The poster points to Kahar Zalmay’s report on taking a Karachi property dispute to a Taliban commander’s court in North Waziristan, and reposts his own six-year-old account, suggesting the heroic…

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“Siri, you’re fired!!!”

A post arguing that children abusing digital assistants like Siri may breed moronic automatons, with an article on a ten-year-old shouting at an iPhone.

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India at the forefront of fighting Climate Change

A report on Bangalore farmers using untreated human waste in place of synthetic fertiliser, which raises banana yields and cuts greenhouse gases.

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