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Archie the anarchist
After Singapore banned an Archie comic volume featuring a same-sex marriage, the poster mocks the censorship as denial that gay people exist, and argues that the harm religion does to…
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Society
Arundhati Roy = Nathuram Godse
Responding to Dalit objections to Arundhati Roy writing the foreword to an Ambedkar edition, the author argues Roy, Godse and Charu Majumdar share a disdain for Gandhian non-violence, while conceding…
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No escape from Buk-M (range: 82,000 ft)
After the MH17 shoot-down, the post quotes experts that Buk missile systems are held by nearly every country that bought Russian anti-aircraft weapons, sold widely after the Soviet collapse, and…
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Anthropogenic heat-wave in Kashmir (451F)
After a fire and police action disrupted the Amarnath Yatra, the author argues that Kashmir looks more stable than Xinjiang, where Uighurs face ethnic swamping and cultural erasure, because Indian…
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The Bangladesh Paradox
The poster relays economist Jyoti Rahman’s study of why Bangladesh cut poverty faster than its growth suggests, offering a speculative story of garment jobs for women, migrant labour, NGOs and…
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Politics
Please protect pink people (pronto)!!!
The author urges the new BJP government to take a clear stand on gay rights after the Supreme Court recriminalised homosexuality, arguing it can no longer hide behind coalition partners…
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Geopolitics
“Mosul is now empty of Christians”
A report that Christians fled Mosul after an ultimatum from jihadists, which the poster likens to the exodus of minorities from Kashmir two decades earlier.
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Geopolitics
Viper-puppets and clown-idiots
On Ved Pratap Vaidik’s meeting with Hafiz Saeed, the author doubts the treason charge, noting Vaidik travelled with Mani Shankar Aiyar’s delegation, and suggests the deep state allowed it to…
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Geopolitics
Is this the end of the 2-state solution
A short thought that two hostile neighbouring states can no longer be partitioned, with a hunch that the nation state may have peaked.
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Religion
Sufis in search of (global muslim) identity
The author recounts a family story of a Chishti pir who settled in Bengal and married a local woman, argues it shows conversion was not forced, and questions why Bengali…
