2015

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Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan and Sam Manekshaw (and a comment from Major Agha Amin)

Hamid Hussain corrects a story about Sam Manekshaw and a motorcycle sold to Yahya Khan, drawing on his piece about the controversies over Ayub Khan’s selection as army chief, with…

Brown Pundits Archive27 February 20150 comments
A Trip to Pakistan

A post of pictures and Urdu verses from Hamid Hussain’s trip to Pakistan after the December Peshawar school tragedy, noting a militant attack on Shia worshippers in Hayatabad that his…

Brown Pundits Archive25 February 20150 comments
End of the Muslim Brotherhood

Reposting a 2013 piece lost in an old site crash, the author, responding to Hussein Ibish on the Muslim Brotherhood’s decline, argues the Islamist political party project is struggling and…

Brown Pundits Archive23 February 20150 comments
The signs when you become white

A light list of eleven signs that a South Asian immigrant has ‘become white’, such as punctuality, advance scheduling and ethnic identity serving as a way to stand out.

Brown Pundits Archive21 February 20150 comments
Is Islam a Religion of the Book?

Responding to Razib Khan’s post, the author argues no religion is truly a ‘religion of the book’, since people remake religion as time demands, and so Islam is no more…

Brown Pundits Archive20 February 20150 comments
Indian Troops in East Africa

Hamid Hussain writes about Indian soldiers in East Africa in the Great War, including the 129th Baluchis, as a piece of long-forgotten military archaeology, with the poster adding comments on…

Brown Pundits Archive16 February 20150 comments
Caste “privilege”, the Americal Dalit speaks

The author discusses The Aerogram’s ‘Caste Privilege 101’, dismissing its borrowed race-privilege framing as standard social justice claptrap but welcoming its attention to low-caste South Asians in the diaspora.

Brown Pundits Archive14 February 20150 comments
Victimhood, Desi Post-Marxists, Social Justice, Racism and other random thoughts

Prompted by Razib Khan’s question why South Asian American websites lean left, the author offers random thoughts on victimhood, desi post-Marxists, social justice and racism, noting Khan’s hypothesis that selection…

Brown Pundits Archive13 February 20150 comments
Why are all South Asian American websites so Left?

The author asks why explicitly South Asian American websites lean Left, and suggests a selection effect among those who found and read them, since the average South Asian American is…

Brown Pundits Archive9 February 20150 comments
Colonialism has a lot to answer for.

Writing from Phnom Penh, the author observes that Siam, which kept its independence however nominally, is the Southeast Asian country that has thrived throughout.

Brown Pundits Archive4 February 20150 comments