2014

All years and months

Uniform Civil Code (baby step #2)

The author argues the Uniform Civil Code will advance through individual Muslim petitions, such as Shabnam Hashmi’s adoption victory, as the Supreme Court tightens the screws step by step, and…

Brown Pundits Archive7 July 20140 comments
Arab spring chickens come to India

Reading a food history that says Islam helped spread Indian crops such as rice, sugarcane and citrus westward, the author celebrates food as a good thing, then turns to teenage…

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“Death was so close to us”

After the Kerala nurses returned from Iraq with debts and no jobs, the author argues India needs ten times more doctors and nurses, questions why AIIMS-style colleges took 65 years,…

Brown Pundits Archive7 July 20140 comments
D men frm East India Co wud like to c u*

On William Hague and George Osborne’s letter to India after Modi’s election, the poster argues goodwill will come only if the UK eases visas for Indian executives and students and…

Brown Pundits Archive7 July 20140 comments
End of Hunger?

Reading reports on pearl millet and child hunger, the author argues India’s democracy at least keeps the poor alive barely above starvation, that technology could bypass corrupt middlemen, and that…

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The Mosques of Mosul (no more)

Reports that Islamist militants destroyed mosques and shrines in Nineveh, with the poster’s comment that Muslims are persecuted for being the wrong sort of Muslim.

Brown Pundits Archive6 July 20140 comments
Pak-China Tunnel Vision

Why is Pakistan silent about China’s treatment of the Uighurs? A look at the official reasoning, starting from a piece by Rafia Zakaria.

Brown Pundits Archive5 July 20140 comments
The life of Sheila

On the Z-plus security cover given to Lalu Prasad even in prison, and Sheila Dixit’s role in the Commonwealth Games, the poster argues Indian media is too deferential to politicians,…

Brown Pundits Archive5 July 20140 comments
3 dads (racism, communalism, greed), 600 orphans

After reports that children from Bihar and Jharkhand were taken to Kerala orphanages, the author argues racism between Indians is widespread, that even progressive Kerala is not immune, and that…

Brown Pundits Archive5 July 20140 comments
The RSS is back in (cultural) business

The author sees the RSS taking over India’s cultural institutions, beginning with Y. Sudershan Rao at the ICHR, and mocks what may follow, from degrees in astrology to claims about…

Brown Pundits Archive4 July 20140 comments