2014

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Visiting the UK: dos and (mostly) donts

A wry note on an Al-Qaeda threat to use British jihadis returning from Syria to attack the Queen, football matches, the Savoy and race meetings, presented as advice for visitors…

Brown Pundits Archive24 March 20142 comments
Sunanda Pushkar: foul play confirmed

A note on reports that the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of minister Shashi Tharoor, was foul play, with the poster’s speculation about motive and a linked piece on responses…

Brown Pundits Archive24 March 20140 comments
“hard slap” vs. “blatant aggression”

A comment on Turkey shooting down a Syrian plane that crossed its border, which the poster sees as a dangerous widening of the war, asking where the international left’s loud…

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
Sardar Ahmad

A note on the killing of Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmad and his family in Kabul, with the poster’s bitter comment on the Taliban and the Afghan suspicion of the ISI.

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
The Dalits need no religion

A comment on the religious affiliation of Dalits, recalling Mayawati and Kanshi Ram’s anger at the caste order and the neo-Buddhism and Bhim Sena movements of Maharashtra, with the poster’s…

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
Ragini (MMS 2) is a scary good lady

A brief recommendation of the film Ragini MMS 2, praising Sunny Leone’s performance, with a quoted extract on the plot; the poster says it is not a family film.

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
(un) Indian mother

A note praising an ordinary middle-class mother who encouraged her son, injured in a bike accident, to keep pursuing his dream of crossing India by motorbike, which the poster treats…

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20141 comment
The fear of the Ummah

The poster argues that the West’s fear of a united Ummah, more than oil, explains its handling of the Middle East and North Africa, saying the Ottomans were broken up…

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
“…abundance of everything but …no izzat”

A note arguing that izzat, tied to the conduct of women, held colonial rank in place and that Indian soldiers’ contact with French women in the First World War damaged…

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
Varanasi- Waterloo of the East

A comment framing the Varanasi contest as the Waterloo of the East, a Congress Brahmin against a BJP Shudra favoured to win, and as the end of a slow 67-year…

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20141 comment