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Communal? Who, me??
Reacting to a Congress MP criticising the party’s appeal through Delhi’s Shahi Imam, the poster argues religious leaders are inevitably communal, and lists the main caste and community voting combinations…
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Operation Bluestar. Video Documenary
A one-line post adding a video documentary on Operation Bluestar to Hamid Hussain’s earlier review.
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A preview of Indo-Pak cooperation in Uganda
A Ugandan anecdote in which a sales call brings two South Asian colleagues, one Indian and one Pakistani, whom the poster sees as an almost perfect illustration of Indo-Pak cooperation,…
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Is Kashmir’s Jung a Jihad? A Pakistani Cleric answers
Sheikh Tauseef ur Rehman answers whether the Kashmir conflict is a jihad, on purely religious grounds, with the poster noting that Maududi also opposed jihad in Kashmir in 1947.
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“Rape is …the end of our future”
After the Badaun killings, the poster urges readers to fund village toilets through Sulabh International, and posts a Dawn column by Anwar Iqbal framed as a conversation between a king…
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Too fucking little, too late
Arguing for toilets before temples, the poster says India must end the despair of its girls, as Sulabh pledges toilets in Badaun’s Katra Shahadatganj, and urges the well-off to sponsor…
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The Tree of Shame
A brief lament that there is no shame left, with no words for sorrow and apology.
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July 1987: Reports from a different India
A reproduced July 1987 news report on attacks on two buses in Haryana and Punjab, in which gunmen thought to be Sikh separatists killed dozens of passengers, mostly Hindus.
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May-day(s) were quite the Pay-day(s)
A jocular editorial note that May was a good month, with over 200 posts for a third month running, welcoming a new young contributor and asking readers to write for…
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The Master Spy comes in from the cold
Contrasting India’s bumbling image with Pakistan’s focused military, the poster argues Indian successes are rare exceptions, and profiles Ajit Doval, who spent six years in Pakistan’s Indian High Commission, as…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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