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Mission 5000

The poster marks 1,000 posts and 200,000 page views since the blog’s return, and sets a new target, Mission 5000, appealing for more open-minded readers and contributors.

Brown Pundits Archive30 August 20140 comments
Saving the Incompetent Sharif Brothers and this Rapacious Unfair System

Argues that building a working democracy in an ex-colonial country takes far more skill than running a functional government, and that undermining the system, even to remove incompetent leaders like…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Old age homes (not just for politicians)

Prompted by the Congress taunt about the BJP’s ‘old age home’ for senior leaders, the poster argues that scientists, entertainers and technocrats, not only politicians, should make way for younger…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
The “Disney” God and Blasphemy

Responding to Ram Gopal Varma’s mocking tweets on Ganesha, the poster offers a affectionate take on the god as a mother’s favourite and argues how left-liberals treat Hindu deities, with…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
India is a “sinful country”

After reports that Mumbra and Bhiwandi youths joined the Caliphate, the poster calls for punishment of those who radicalised them and asks why a religious preacher would call India a…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
False Dawn?

Noting Suzuki importing Indian transmission technology, the poster says the Indian economy is showing signs of life under Modi, compares him to the Pakistani Army as a stabiliser, and warns…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Egypt shows the way

Responding to an American assessment of Pakistan’s protests, the poster argues the army is preferred over mob rule, as in Egypt and Thailand, and that Nawaz Sharif is finished partly…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Soft coup-

A one-paragraph comment that the Pakistan Army has emerged as the winner of the political crisis, with democracy defanged but its legitimacy preserved.

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Zone One

The poster reads Zone One alongside World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, finding it slower and less plot-driven, and muses on the end of ‘multi-culti’ and the West’s…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Soft genocide?

Commenting on the Khmer Rouge tribunal verdict, the poster argues that international law labels genocide selectively, since a majority killing its own is not counted while killing minorities is, and…

Brown Pundits Archive28 August 20140 comments