May 2014

Great Expectations

Drawing on reporting about BJP voters, the poster argues India’s elites treat Hindutva shallowly while the poor are idealistic and politically aware, and hopes that the high expectations of Modi…

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(neo)Maoism for memory loss (in 3 steps)

Quoting an account of Mao’s belief that suffering and even mass death clear the head, the poster argues the passage captures the sentiment of totalitarian ideologies and possibly of neo-Maoists,…

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Shri Hemkunt Sahib

Marks the opening of the Hemkund Sahib gurdwara in the Garhwal Himalayas, where Guru Gobind Singh is said to have meditated, urging pilgrims to take care after last year’s tragedy…

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Inequality caused by “neoliberal, neopatriarchy”

Objecting to the ‘neo’ prefix, the poster takes issue with a Guardian call for a women’s revolution and a commenter’s claim that Chinese women were better off under Mao, calling…

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Feelings (fears) of a (expat) Coconut

The poster describes the mixed shame, anger and envy of non-Gujarati expat ‘Coconuts’ watching Modi’s India, contrasting them with Gujarati expats who celebrate, and quotes one such writer’s fears and…

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On Tianenmen 25 Yr eve, tanks roll out in Urumqui

On the eve of Tiananmen’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the poster warns that tanks rolling out in Urumqi after a bombing signal a brutal crackdown, calls the Islamist militants’ provocation a miscalculation,…

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How alike are Pakistan and Israel?

Taking up the question of how alike Pakistan and Israel are, the poster notes both were created after the Second World War as religiously defined states, cites Zia’s remark, P…

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S Anand

Profiles S Anand, whose publishing house Navayana takes its name from Ambedkar’s Buddhism and publishes books against caste prejudice, using quoted coverage of its awards and links to earlier Brown…

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Ghazi Ilm-ud-Din Shaheed

Posts Raza Rumi’s history of blasphemy and Ghazi Ilm-ud-Din, praised by Iqbal and Jinnah, with the poster reading it as proof of the Two Nation Theory and noting that the…

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Arundhati Roy explains the Modi-plan

Posts key points from an Arundhati Roy interview describing a democratically elected totalitarian government under Modi, with the poster’s sarcastic aside that tribals, not Muslims, will be sacrificed to corporates.

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