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The UK is Greater India
On referendum day, the poster passes on Niall Ferguson’s quip that Scotland is AfPak and England is India, and hopes for unity.
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Bangladesh forgives Jamaat
The author calls the commutation of Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s death sentence good but not fair, argues Bangladesh needs a working compromise and forgiveness, and worries about land grabs and the…
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The lives of peasants
After a harrowing fiction extract, the author argues that peasants endure horrific conditions under globalisation, that elites must share if liberal democracy is to avoid armed revolution, and that dignity…
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Pakistan: Weimar Republic of Asia?
Revisiting his 2011 essay on whether Pakistan is a failed state or a Weimar Republic, Omar Ali argues the greatest danger is not Islamist fanatics but China’s rise inflating the…
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“Malik sahab, sorry…go back”
An Outlook India report on angry passengers refusing to let former minister Rehman Malik board a delayed PIA flight, which the poster welcomes as a rare stand by commoners against…
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Made (for India) in Pakistan
Responding to Burka Avenger writer Adi Abdurab’s worry about Pakistani content bending to suit Indian tastes and culture, the author argues he is unduly concerned, since Indian audiences enjoy Pakistani…
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TCS bats for (Saudi) women
A report that Tata Consultancy Services has opened an all-women back office in Riyadh for 3,000 Saudi women, plus its toilets-for-schoolgirls initiative in India, with a link to Yahoo News.
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Education is our birth-right
A Hindu report on a Bengal schoolgirl who resisted child marriage and now appears in a textbook, with comment that education and voting are the first steps to emancipation.
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David Cawthorne Haines
After the reported beheading of British aid worker David Haines, the author asks what he was doing in Syria and whether ransoms should be paid, and offers a digression on…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
