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Multiculturalism with Chinese Characteristics
The author, quoting reports from Xinjiang, says China’s campaign against separatism has become an all-out war on conservative Islam among the Uighurs, and argues that the Pakistani nationalist dream of…
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Brand Brown Muslim
Prompted by Zia Haider Rahman’s novel, the author argues that Pakistan’s founders had a point about a Sunni ‘Medina in South Asia’, that East and West Pakistan may reconnect, and…
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Lehman Sisters (India)
Citing Fortune’s 2014 list, the poster celebrates eight Indian women among Asia-Pacific’s top twenty-five and says the ‘Lehman Sisters’ now run half the country’s assets, with links to Outlook and…
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Playing the loony tunes (non-stop)
Reports on the killing of Karachi University’s dean of Islamic studies, Muhammad Shakil Auj, who faced blasphemy allegations, with comment that blasphemy laws are too useful to be shelved without…
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“Indian Muslims live for India….die for India”
The author doubts the BJP’s divide between ‘Indian Muslims’ and ‘Muslim Indians’, arguing actions speak louder than words and polarisation for votes must end, and quotes Fareed Zakaria’s mixed verdict…
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Sail the 7 seas (on iceberg rafts)
The author, citing Darwin’s speculation, describes new evidence that animals colonised the world by rafting, from snakes crossing open ocean to monkeys reaching South America on clumps of earth, rather…
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“My dad is from Jullundur”
The author remarks wryly that Richard Verma’s appointment as US ambassador to India deepens a white-brown bonding, and notes that a congressman mistook two Indian American State Department officials for…
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“Price of every tear will be paid”
The author welcomes the settlement for a student wrongly arrested in the United States, but warns middle-class Indian students about US harassment laws and zero-tolerance codes, and is uneasy about…
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Naw beats Aye
On the day of Scotland’s referendum, the author argues that Britain loves partition for others, that partition never solves problems, and that India’s route to prosperity lies in more secularism…
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An Appeal for Alan
Writing on the appeal by British imams for the release of hostage Alan Henning, the author is cynical that it may be public relations and unlikely to move the Caliphate’s…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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