May 2014
-
Jalliikattu ban
Welcoming the Supreme Court’s ban on Jallikattu bull fights, the poster argues that a centuries-old tradition cannot justify cruelty, credits Jairam Ramesh for first acting, and criticises the Tamil Nadu…
-
Yingluck runs out of luck
On the Constitutional Court’s removal of Yingluck Shinawatra, the poster notes claims of judicial bias and argues orderly non-democratic rule cannot replace political freedom, seeing Thailand’s red and yellow shirts…
-
Who is Malik Riaz Hussain?
Introduces a New York Times report on Malik Riaz Hussain, a tycoon with military ties who has funded Islamabad’s Red Mosque, which is again preaching militancy. The poster notes the…
-
Gandhians with Guns (savage Avatars)
The poster says Western liberals romanticise tribal ‘sacred lands’, and that the Bodo violence against alleged Bangladeshi Muslim migrants draws on the 1960s Bangal Kheda movement against Bengalis, so civil…
-
From dunce to genius in two blows!!
A report on scientists studying how a man who suffered severe head injuries in an assault became a mathematical genius, introduced by the poster’s joke that hope now springs eternal…
-
The (muslim) divisions of the Dewan (Ajmer)
The poster argues that the two-nation theory created Muslims regarded as outsiders in both India and Pakistan, citing the row in which Shaan called Ali Zafar a traitor for working…
