2014

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Poor monsoon is payback for Gujarat

Reacting to a politician’s remark that a failed monsoon may be payback for Gujarat 2002, the post accepts that logic only if applied without bias, running through 1984 and Rajiv…

Brown Pundits Archive12 June 20140 comments
Vultures of Calcutta take Direct Action

Presenting photographs of Kolkata in August 1946, the post notes that every community accused of excess pleads amnesia, that no one has been held at fault for the Great Calcutta…

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
Pakistan Predictions 2014?

Adding a third instalment of Pakistan predictions, prompted by Ahsan Butt’s piece on a Taliban victory, the author recalls his 2012 forecasts of mutually assured corruption among army, politicians and…

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
Hindu Muslim marriages: what gives?

Starting from a Bhopal elopement that caused a storm, the post backs a civil marriage for a Hindu-Muslim couple it knows, quotes Tariq Ansari’s case for a uniform civil code,…

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
President 007

Excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices on Obama pushing into a closed meeting with China’s premier, which the poster jokes broke up ‘Chindia’ just in time, though it ranks below…

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
Karachi: After Altaf, the deluge?

A passage on Karachi’s extreme violence, citing Laurent Gayer’s Ordered Disorder, and Christophe Jaffrelot’s warning that electoral politics combined with paramilitary technique could get out of hand after Altaf Hussain.

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
Tea Party Zindabad

An open thread opening with sympathy for ‘coconut people’ being routed at the polls: Eric Cantor’s primary defeat to the Tea Party in the US and the left-liberals’ failed campaign…

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Comrade Tariq Ali comments (not)

A satirical press release in the voice of ‘comrade Tariq Ali’, reproduced by the poster with minimal editing after a Twitter hashtag mocking those who treat the Taliban as anti-imperialist…

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
Hilary, ISI and Osama

Snippets from Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices on why the US did not tell Pakistan about the bin Laden raid, citing ISI ties to extremists, with the poster mocking her book…

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
Britain responsible for Taliban-led atrocities

Mocking brown liberals who blame colonial rulers for everything, the post says Britain is responsible for Taliban atrocities through a massive bomb-detector fraud, and quotes a report on how militants…

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments