2014

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New (Middle-East) states bloom in (Jihadi) Spring

Quoting a report on ISIS’s fighters and its quarrel with al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri over beheadings, the poster suggests the Middle East states carved by Britain and France may now be redrawn…

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18-05-2014 (the day Britain left India)

Responding to a Guardian editorial that Modi’s victory ends rule by an English-speaking elite, the post calls it fair comment on a silent social revolution that produced a ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’…

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World Cup thoughts

Agreeing with a BBC writer that Brazil’s opening World Cup match against Croatia was marred by a dubious penalty, the poster adds that Croatia played well and the tournament song…

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The soft-spoken man speaks (yes he has a stick)

On RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat saying the Sangh holds no remote control over the government, the poster profiles him as a gifted artist and deft politician who defies the fire-breathing…

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“Everybody knows there is going to be a blowback”

Quoting a passenger’s account of the Karachi airport attack, the poster ridicules online analysis that treats the Karachi and Mumbai attacks as linked by cell phones, or calls Mumbai a…

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Hello Drones (please come fly our friendly skies)

After the Karachi attack, the poster argues Pashtun nationalists bent on war outnumber those seeking peace, speculates they want Karachi for sea access, and notes the last US drone strike…

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1992: Modi in Kashmir

A compilation of sources on Narendra Modi’s role in the January 1992 flag-hoisting at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk, including his own narration and his website’s account, presented without value judgement.

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“who will help me run my household after Nabeel?”

Quoting families of Karachi airport cargo workers killed in the attack, the post says Pashtun nationalists are reshaping Pakistan while the poor pay most, and that the dead were mostly…

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Green-light for Musharraf

A report that the Sindh High Court removed Pervez Musharraf from the exit control list, with the poster saying the ex-dictator played a double game, should not have returned and…

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India’s first female surfer

A profile of Ishita Malaviya, India’s first professional female surfer, who runs a surf club on Karnataka’s coast, and a documentary on how surfing can empower women where girls are…

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