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The Cadillac Man
An obituary for Robin Williams, praising his work from Good Will Hunting to Dead Poets Society, his unsparing humour on religion and a clip on Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
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Mount Sinjar overlooks the Valley of Death
Quoting reports from Mount Sinjar, the poster laments that Yazidis are dying of thirst as the world watches in silence, a community vanishing with little hope of reaching aid, and…
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Third World Invasion of Canada (by Sikhs)
Citing attacks on Sikhs in India, Pakistan and the US, the poster argues being a model minority offers no protection when native populations feel threatened by changing demographics, and speculates…
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Kashmir “not ours” (re-draw the lines)
Unpacking K Kavitha’s remark that parts of Kashmir are ‘not ours’ and the lines should be redrawn, the poster examines Telangana and Kashmir’s accession history and her support for a…
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Raksha-bandhan (for tots and trees)
Describing Raksha Bandhan as a tradition crossing communities, the poster recounts the Karnavati-Humayun legend and Mahadev Mahato’s Taru Bandhan in Jharkhand, where trees get rakhis, and asks about girls born…
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Monsoon mood mellowing in Mumbai
A post of monsoon songs, led by Rim Jhim Ghire Sawan, with notes on lyricist Yogesh, and a quoted remark by Amarinder Singh blaming the failed monsoon on ‘El Modi’…
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“Why cant a woman be more like a man?”
After Erdogan called a woman journalist a ‘shameless woman’ who should know her place, the poster says it likes seeing women on top, to show they are equal in public…
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“Our children should at least look like us”
Reacting to a surrogacy scandal in Thailand and NRI preferences for fair-skinned adopted children, the poster asks whether fairness really makes a child ‘look like us’, recalls how browns are…
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No beards (burqas) on the (Xinjiang) bus
Prompted by Xinjiang bus bans on veils and beards, the poster restates its support for banning religion-inspired parties in a milder form, proposing an unenforceable directive principle that Indian parties…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
