2014

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The last hours of the Romanovs

Declassified files on the last hours of the Romanovs, with the poster comparing it to the deaths of Mujibur Rahman, Ceausescu and Gaddafi.

Brown Pundits Archive18 July 20140 comments
Around the world!

Writing from London, the author reflects on the Malaysian crash in Ukraine alongside the missing MH370, recalls a well-connected friend suggesting the two events were linked, and now inclines to…

Brown Pundits Archive17 July 20140 comments
MH-17 shot down by missile in Ukraine

Live-blog entries on the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukraine, with the poster’s comment that it is the end of the world.

Brown Pundits Archive17 July 20140 comments
Women who “risk it all” for freedom

Marking women who risked everything for freedom, from the Kurdish singer Helly Luv to Matangini Hazra, who at 73 kept marching with the tricolour after being shot during a 1942…

Brown Pundits Archive17 July 20140 comments
The rise and fall of RD Burman

An infographic and Wikipedia profile of the composer R. D. Burman, with the poster recommending Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and Golmal.

Brown Pundits Archive17 July 20142 comments
When a fine is not fine

The author questions imposing a fine on top of a blasphemy death sentence, and argues that Pakistan’s claim that the state has never executed anyone hides the fact that an…

Brown Pundits Archive16 July 20140 comments
Leaving the Left Behind

The poster relays a defence of Jamal Naqvi’s book Leaving the Left Behind, which confronts fundamentalism, and agrees with its extracts that Pakistan’s left should drop rigid economic dogma and…

Brown Pundits Archive15 July 20140 comments
Geography trumps all – Israel's descent into Middle Easterness

The author argues geography is pulling Israel towards the Middle East, suggesting its high birth rate is partly a response to its neighbourhood, that American liberalism sits uneasily with tribal…

Brown Pundits Archive15 July 20140 comments
Popcorn + missiles = funtimes

Reacting to reports of Israelis watching Gaza blasts from a hilltop with popcorn, the poster says war brutalises civilians, but argues the Muslim world should also think hard about how…

Brown Pundits Archive15 July 20140 comments
Saeed: Pak and India are one nation!!!!

Sanam Saeed’s remark that India and Pakistan are effectively one nation, with the poster’s wry comment on a thread asking whether the saree is un-Islamic.

Brown Pundits Archive15 July 20140 comments