2014

All years and months

Kerala aims to be Gujarat (2025)

Reporting Kerala’s plan to be alcohol-free in ten years, the poster weighs liberal and conservative arguments for prohibition against lost tax revenue and jobs, notes the tourism cost, and says…

Brown Pundits Archive23 August 20140 comments
“A small incident of rape”

Reacting to Arun Jaitley’s reported ‘small incident of rape’ remark and Nirbhaya’s mother’s reply, the poster argues the minister is a more complex figure than expectations of senior leaders suggest…

Brown Pundits Archive23 August 20140 comments
The (tiny) knife

Rebutting Deborah Orr’s Guardian column on the ‘tiny knife’ used in a beheading, the poster argues she is wrong on the facts, since the Caliphate has advanced weapons, and that…

Brown Pundits Archive23 August 20140 comments
So…it was Hamas after all

Citing a Hamas official who said the group did not intend a large battle but ‘Allah willed’ one, the poster asks why leaders shelter in tunnels while civilians suffer, and…

Brown Pundits Archive22 August 20140 comments
Hussain Haqqani

Summarising Hussain Haqqani’s view that Sharif mishandled the protests while the military nudged Imran Khan and Tahir-ul Qadri, the poster doubts Khan has made much impact and compares him to…

Brown Pundits Archive22 August 20140 comments
The father of Hamid (Dabholkar)

Starting from the name Hamid Dabholkar, the poster explores how Maharashtrian surnames with a -kar suffix point to ancestral villages, with examples from Ambedkar to Narlikar, and describes the Dabholkar…

Brown Pundits Archive22 August 20140 comments
Minds trapped in “metal coffins”

Arguing that Partition shows why coexistence matters, the poster cites E. M. S. Namboodiripad’s 1969 creation of a Muslim-majority district in Kerala as an example of left parties playing communal…

Brown Pundits Archive21 August 20140 comments
Thirteen years in exile

On the release of Irom Sharmila after thirteen years of detention, the poster compares her to Rama’s exile and names her with Binayak Sen, Baba Amte and Medha Patkar as…

Brown Pundits Archive20 August 20140 comments
OSO for BKS

An obituary for B. K. S. Iyengar, credited by the poster with creating the worldwide yoga brand, with a note that the poster has doubts about yoga’s benefits except for…

Brown Pundits Archive20 August 20140 comments
“A message to America” (from a Briton)

Reacting to the beheading of James Foley by a militant said to be from London, the poster argues that immigration controls and surveillance cannot stop disaffected, Western-raised Islamists who feel…

Brown Pundits Archive20 August 20140 comments