2014

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Can Sindh Save Pakistan

The author argues that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s celebration of Sindh’s heritage, opening at Moenjodaro, strikes a chord because it promotes traditions rooted in Pakistan rather than imported Arab ones, and…

Brown Pundits Archive8 February 20148 comments
Mathew Martoma = “Triple Package” + Sociopathy

A comment on convicted trader Mathew Martoma’s fraud, arguing that pressure-driven Asian immigrant cultures may encourage corner-cutting to reach Harvard, alongside the danger of the clever but amoral.

Brown Pundits Archive7 February 20142 comments
The Act of Killing

The poster recommends the documentary The Act of Killing without having seen it, and reflects that Indonesia openly honours mass killers in a way India’s 1947 and 1971 killers were…

Brown Pundits Archive7 February 20140 comments
Indo-Pak resemblance

A one-line remark that Mush, a friend of a friend in South London, has become a meme.

Brown Pundits Archive6 February 20140 comments
Pakistan Zindabad

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25446898?SThisFB

Brown Pundits Archive4 February 20140 comments
Pakistani-American teenager is new Ms. Marvel

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/02/03/the-new-marvel-take-that-stereotypes/IPKzwiWJrimXlN52z0szzJ/story.html

Brown Pundits Archive4 February 20140 comments
Pakistani-American teenager is new Ms. Marvel

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/02/03/the-new-marvel-take-that-stereotypes/IPKzwiWJrimXlN52z0szzJ/story.html

Brown Pundits Archive4 February 20143 comments
the state of Sindh

A tweeted observation from Sindh that the poster found a boy and his friends working in fields who knew no one who had been to school.

Brown Pundits Archive3 February 20140 comments
Pakistan: The Narratives Fall Apart

The author argues that the Pakistani government has lost control of its narrative on the Taliban, a confusion partly chosen since Musharraf’s Hudaybiyya speech, and that beheadings of soldiers have…

Brown Pundits Archive2 February 20140 comments
Cafe Le Whore and other stories

The poster recommends Moazzam Sheikh’s new short story collection Cafe Le Whore as brilliant, original and funny, a fresh Pakistani-American voice writing human stories about migration, Lahore and San Francisco,…

Brown Pundits Archive2 February 20140 comments