2014

All years and months

A new (unwelcome) guest

A report on a possible polio-like virus affecting children in California, with the poster’s joke that polio already troubles the region enough.

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Traitor

Extracts from Kamila Shamsie in her own words on the unease the Union Jack brought her while writing a novel of the Raj, a feeling she says concerns Pakistan more…

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A rose will rest in peace

A one-line comment mourning a talented young person killed by ‘hideous, barbaric monsters’.

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Eternal youth

A brief comment on a 70-year-old Bahamas resident who says stem cell therapy is reversing his ageing, with a quip about the promised land where the rich stay young.

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Gorakh Hill for a quiet time

A travel extract on Gorakh Hill, Sindh’s highest point at 5,688 feet, praising its views and the adventurous climb, with the poster pleased to find the peak and its ancient…

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The (unsung) mutiny (1946)

A 94-year-old eyewitness’s account of the 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny, with the poster noting the mutineers were never employed by either the Indian or Pakistani navy.

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Thorium reactor #1 (only by 2025)

A report that India’s Advanced Heavy Water Reactor, a thorium-fuelled design from BARC, is ready, with the poster hoping the plans are meant and worrying that Kerala’s thorium reserves are…

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Caste system explained?

Extracts on Raj Chetty’s finding that US social mobility is low and steady and on Gregory Clark’s surname research, which the poster says implicitly works as a caste test.

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In Burma, of Burma, but not Burmese…yet

Reading a New York Times report on Burma, the author argues the persecution of the Rohingya is not driven by religion alone, since many Burmese Muslims are of mixed descent,…

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Islamabad

A report on a gun and suicide bomb attack at an Islamabad court complex that killed 11, with the poster saying the ceasefire is a joke.

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