2014

All years and months

Randa Zarar responds to hate-mail

A note linking Randa Zarar’s response to hate mail over her essay on belly dancing, in which she reports serious discrimination against Arab Americans.

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The Southern (second) Front is open

A note on the BJP’s seven-party alliance in Tamil Nadu, with the poster expecting its seat count to stay near zero even if the vote share rises.

Brown Pundits Archive20 March 20142 comments
An agnostic bats for ahimsa

A note reproducing Khushwant Singh’s views on non-violence, vegetarianism and the death penalty, which he called murder by the state, posted after his death with the poster’s RIP.

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Palaniappan Chidambaram

A comment on P. Chidambaram opting out of the Lok Sabha election and nominating his son Karti, which the poster sees as a quick fall that effectively ends his career.

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Train to Pakistan

An obituary note for Khushwant Singh (1915-2014), recalling his fondness for his birthplace in pre-partition Pakistan and his novel Train to Pakistan, with a quoted extract on its Mano Majra…

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NASA-NSF predicts collapse of civilization

A note on a NASA-sponsored study warning that industrial civilisation could collapse from resource strain and inequality, with the poster questioning the claim and welcoming its comparison of Maurya, Gupta…

Brown Pundits Archive20 March 20140 comments
Who betrayed whom?

A note on Carlotta Gall’s book The Wrong Enemy, which claims Pakistani generals knew of Osama bin Laden’s presence, with the official Pakistani rebuttals.

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The billion dollar candidate

A note on Nandan Nilekani declaring assets of Rs 7,700 crore as a Congress candidate for Bangalore South, with the poster hoping his giving goes to education of all kinds.

Brown Pundits Archive20 March 20140 comments
Another Day, Another Shia Doctor Killed…

A personal note mourning the killing of Dr Babar Ali, a district health officer and anti-polio campaigner shot in Attock district, the second friend killed in a year, with no…

Brown Pundits Archive19 March 20140 comments
mA: Holi between India & Pak at Wagah border

Brown Pundits Archive19 March 20140 comments