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Indians vs Cowboys (Madison Square Garden)
The author mocks a human rights group’s summons against Modi’s Madison Square Garden event, argues that praise of Hitler is no uniquely Hindu fault, and says Modi cannot be beaten…
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Great Wars: Panipat (1761) – Ferozeshah (1845)
Prompted by another Middle East war, the author reflects on the cost of war in South Asian history, with extracts on Panipat in 1761 and the Sikh army at Ferozeshah,…
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Dads and daughters
A light commentary on fathers and daughters, quoting an Independent report of a financier who left a fund after his daughter listed 22 life events he had missed.
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Aur tumhare paas kya hai?
A quip, using the Deewaar line ‘Aur tumhare paas kya hai?’, on India’s Mars mission beating China’s Yinghuo-1, with an anecdote about a tenure-track put-down.
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A seedling (ankur) is 40 years
A tribute to Shabana Azmi on 40 years since Ankur, with extracts from an interview, ranking Hindi film actresses and criticising her over her relationship with Javed Akhtar, offered in…
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India-Southern Research Organization (ISRO)
Celebrating the names of ISRO’s Mars mission team, the author argues that parochialism is a sin liberals decry but cannot yet be wished away, that identities may be celebrated without…
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Random Thoughts
A set of scattered thoughts on Pakistan, beginning with an Urdu column that mimics Goebbels, to argue that Tahir ul Qadri and Imran Khan borrow the Left’s revolution vocabulary to…
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The happy martyrs
A Reuters report on Hamas acknowledging responsibility for the killing of three Israeli teenagers, with comment that its ‘happy martyrs’ helped ignite a war and that an alliance of the…
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Pakistani makes the largest political bet in history –
A Guardian report on a City trader of Pakistani-German heritage who made the largest political bet in British history on a No vote in Scotland, with the poster remarking that…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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