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Selfie (833AM), self-less (834AM)
A warning against taking selfies, texting or posting while driving, prompted by a news extract on a woman killed in a US head-on collision seconds after updating her status.
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Culture
How to safeguard against the coming extinctions
The author reflects that English is becoming the new Latin, noting how Ugandan families switch from local languages to English or Luglish, and compares the loss of linguistic diversity to…
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An Atheist upgrades to Allah (via Jesus )
A comment on an interview with Reza Aslan on tradition, why al-Qaeda is not anti-modern and his own moves from Christianity to Islam, with the poster asking what led him…
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Politics
Sindh celebrates the girl child (and humanity)
The poster welcomes the Sindh Assembly’s bill banning marriage under 18, the first such provincial law, praising its sponsors, and cautions that tight enforcement and community leaders’ support are needed;…
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Society
Intermarriage
The author reposts a note arguing, from Midnight’s Children and the Aga Khan’s family, that mixed marriages dilute community lines, and observes that Ismaili intermarriage among Kampala’s Desi elite exceeds…
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Politics
“We love Pakistan army and ISI”
A comment on Geo TV’s unprecedented public defiance of the ISI after the attack on Hamid Mir; the poster expects little to change except Geo’s demise, but thinks breaking the…
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(brown) Silicon Superman crushed by racism
Commenting on the removal of Gurbaksh Chahal from the RadiumOne board after a domestic violence case, the poster questions the police and prosecutors’ conduct and contrasts the daily danger women…
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“When she awoke, her brother was gone”
A comment, with a long Associated Press extract, on two child refugees separated from their parents at sea; the poster asks when the history of children displaced by the partitions…
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Beautiful people have it the worst
The author mockingly sympathises with the actress Nargis Fakhri after her treatment on a chat show, joking that being beautiful and tall is a heavy cross, and that she has…
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Dharmics United vs. The Yavanas
The author argues that Daljit Singh Kohli’s move to the BJP reflects Congress’s sinking fortunes, warns that community polarisation is uniting Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists against Muslims, and hopes…
