2014

All years and months

Partition Tales (silent)

A family diary of a Bengali family’s 1948 move from Mymensingh to Calcutta, with the poster urging a new generation to record Partition stories beyond ideology.

Brown Pundits Archive26 July 20140 comments
No home but Rome

Prompted by an account of Bengali emigrants in Rome, the author asks why India gets milder foreign press coverage than Pakistan despite its record, and suggests Western media were also…

Brown Pundits Archive26 July 20140 comments
Semitic Superpower?

My friend Joel Belleson writes this:

Brown Pundits Archive26 July 20140 comments
Liaquat Ali Khan defies Amrika (and dies)

A report on declassified documents claiming Liaquat Ali Khan refused US demands on Iran’s oil and American air bases, with the poster calling Pakistan and America frenemies from birth.

Brown Pundits Archive26 July 20140 comments
Homeopathy

Reacting to a blood-cancer death after a family chose homeopathy over a costly hospital bill, the author argues that poor access to affordable care in India, plus worsening pollution and…

Brown Pundits Archive26 July 20140 comments
Caliphate orders 4 mil mutilations

A report of a UN claim that the Islamic State ordered female genital mutilation for women in Mosul, with the poster noting the burden on Sunnis living under it.

Brown Pundits Archive24 July 20140 comments
Air Algerie plane blows up over Mali

A short post on the Air Algerie plane lost over Mali, noting a run of crashes and speculating the cause may be Islamist action or an accident.

Brown Pundits Archive24 July 20140 comments
Palestine and Israel…no end in sight

Linking William Saletan’s proposal for ending the Gaza conflict, the poster calls it utopian and unlikely to be tried, and describes the conflict as a Greek tragedy in which both…

Brown Pundits Archive24 July 20140 comments
A motorway crash in Wales

Tariq Ali’s account of a BBC Wales interview on Gaza that was dropped after a ‘motorway crash’, with a reader’s comment on the hint.

Brown Pundits Archive23 July 20140 comments
Mountain polo (by moonlight)

A short note on moonlit polo at Shandur Top in Gilgit-Baltistan, with its history and a joking suggestion to advertise water polo on the nearby lake.

Brown Pundits Archive23 July 20140 comments