2014

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Uganda's Indians

The poster sketches layers of Uganda’s South Asian community: old landed families who returned after Idi Amin’s expulsion, newer Kenyan-origin families moving into industry, and recent poor arrivals, with Pakistanis…

Brown Pundits Archive11 May 20140 comments
Vietnam for a “rising India” (against China)

A reproduced report in which a Vietnamese diplomat says Vietnam wants India to rise quickly because of Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea. The poster is amused and sceptical…

Brown Pundits Archive10 May 20140 comments
Muslims are over-represented only in jails

Reacting to Saba Naqvi on the state of secularism, the poster argues that ideologies are more poisonous than events, naming the two-nation theory as the chief source, and that secularists…

Brown Pundits Archive10 May 20140 comments
Chanakya-II (sequel opens May 16)

The poster expects no absolute majority before 16 May, arguing the President would then hold maximum power, and recounts the recent Delhi episode involving Kejriwal and the Lieutenant Governor. It…

Brown Pundits Archive10 May 20140 comments
The Chibok Christians must convert (or die)

The poster argues that Boko Haram’s threat to the Christian girls of Chibok is consistent with an aim of a Sharia state for ‘the right sort’ of Muslims, comparing it…

Brown Pundits Archive10 May 20140 comments
Post Apocalypse means AFTER the apocalypse..

Clarifying an earlier post, the poster sketches what could follow if the Pakistan army fails to change course: a short religious apocalypse in Punjab, then possible Sikh rule under Indian…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20146 comments
“I accept being called a traitor”

Wishing a wounded Geo TV journalist a full recovery, the poster reproduces his statement rejecting the ‘traitor’ label and the ‘good and bad terrorists’ distinction. The poster adds that the…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20140 comments
The marines have landed in Nigeria

Sardonic commentary on the arrival of a US task force in Nigeria to help find the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, with a news extract. The poster doubts they can be found…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20140 comments
“fake OBC” is not the “real” problem

The poster argues the ‘fake OBC’ row over Modi distracts from real caste discrimination, and that elites play the caste card for reservations, marginal votes and debating points. It urges…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20141 comment
Hold the vermillion (start with court marriages)

After a Bollywood singer’s arrest on a rape charge, the poster urges women to insist on court marriage and argues civil law is supreme. It criticises conservative Muslim opposition to…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20140 comments