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Zack’s Thought Experiment of the Day
A thought experiment asking how a journalist’s word ‘settlements’ for Arab Israeli neighbourhoods would read if applied to black inner-city areas, followed by an extract from a photo essay on…
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Politics
Hamid Karzai – Congress’s Man in Afghanistan
A link to a Foreign Policy article asking whether Hamid Karzai was a great leader, and whether he compares with the regional heroes he admires: Gandhi, Nehru and Khan Abdul…
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On Bard’s (450) birthday, Romeo debarred
A wry comment on a Pennsylvania student suspended after asking Miss America Nina Davuluri to his prom, with a news extract; the poster hopes young love is met with kindness…
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Politics
Post poll verdict: Congress in a tight corner
The author predicts a big BJP/NDA win after high Mumbai turnout, arguing that Muslims have mobilised behind Congress and Hindus behind the BJP, and that the Aam Aadmi Party has…
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Politics
LTTE murderers will remain in jail (for now)
A comment with a news extract on the Supreme Court referring the release of Rajiv Gandhi’s convicted killers to a larger constitution bench; the poster calls the decision sensible given…
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Mother of all ballots (180 mil, 117 seats, 04/24)
Ahead of a major polling day, the poster observes that Christian and Muslim communities differ in their attitudes to Modi, with some Kerala and Goan Christians reportedly backing him, and…
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Society
Americans (ideologues) prefer traitors
The author takes up Reihan Salam’s argument that dating preferences by race reflect the communities people grow up in, reports that among his peers brown women and white men often…
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Deep State Fatwa: shut down Geo TV (or else)
A comment, with a news extract, on the Pakistan Army’s demand that Geo TV be shut after it accused the ISI of ordering an attack on Hamid Mir; the poster…
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Ground Zero (Rana Plaza, Bangladesh)
On the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, the poster says surviving victims still have no justice, recommends buying a book of the images, and reproduces a long account…
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Politics
Affirmative action is dead
A comment, with a news extract, on the US Supreme Court’s 6-2 ruling that Michigan may ban affirmative action in public education; the poster attributes it to the Southern white…
