2014

All years and months

Taliban Justice. Then and Now

The poster points to Kahar Zalmay’s report on taking a Karachi property dispute to a Taliban commander’s court in North Waziristan, and reposts his own six-year-old account, suggesting the heroic…

Brown Pundits Archive8 April 20141 comment
“Siri, you’re fired!!!”

A post arguing that children abusing digital assistants like Siri may breed moronic automatons, with an article on a ten-year-old shouting at an iPhone.

Brown Pundits Archive8 April 20140 comments
India at the forefront of fighting Climate Change

A report on Bangalore farmers using untreated human waste in place of synthetic fertiliser, which raises banana yields and cuts greenhouse gases.

Brown Pundits Archive8 April 20143 comments
Reihan Salam- neocon unlimited

The poster is puzzled by Reihan Salam’s defence of American policy on the 1971 Bangladesh war, noting that Nixon never told the Pakistan Army to stop, though Salam admits a…

Brown Pundits Archive7 April 20141 comment
Nuclear madness

A report that the BJP manifesto may revisit India’s no-first-use doctrine, which the poster reads as macho posturing and a missed chance for NaMo and NaSha to discuss regional security.

Brown Pundits Archive7 April 20142 comments
Kargil War

Reposting an older piece, the author argues Kargil was no great victory thrown away by Nawaz Sharif. He once accepted the ‘tactical success, strategic blunder’ line, but later details showed…

Brown Pundits Archive7 April 20141 comment
Sam Manekshaw, by Hamid Hussain

Hamid Hussain recounts anecdotes from a documentary on Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, including how he, Yahya Khan and S. K. Sinha served together in Delhi in 1947 and then met…

Brown Pundits Archive7 April 20140 comments
India- Hindu or Secular?

The poster argues India is neither simply Hindu nor secular, as Hindus are not a single bloc and ‘secular’ is used to play communities against each other, with a report…

Brown Pundits Archive6 April 20141 comment
This Mughal is a Rajput fan

A report that MS Dhoni arranged a pass for a Pakistani cricket fan, which the poster calls a bright splash against the cloudy sky of South Asia while the two-nation…

Brown Pundits Archive6 April 20140 comments
Why Dilip Babu will not vote for BJP

The poster reproduces Dilip D’Souza’s explanation of why he will not vote BJP, however good the local candidate, and says the party’s challenge is to win over people like him.

Brown Pundits Archive6 April 20141 comment