October 2017
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Book Review: Last Hope Island
Reviews Lynne Olson’s Last Hope Island, which the reviewer says does a good job of telling the neglected story of European exiles sheltering in Britain in the Second World War…
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CPEC
Reports notes from a CPEC round table: two proposed routes, one via West Punjab and Sindh and one via Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and the point that British planning treated…
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Cry of the Pandits
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New low in civil-military relations in Pakistan
Hamid Hussain outlines, for non-Pakistani readers, the background to the strain in Pakistan’s civil-military relations in 2017, setting the friction against its history and the military’s long role in the…
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Islam, Gays, “One Islam”..
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China’s Israel
Reposts a friend’s article from The News on China–Pakistan relations, opening with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s 1960 abstention on China’s UN membership as an early signal of Pakistan’s shift away from…
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Muslim aggression
Recounts a Muslim couple’s alarm at his dog, reads it as a recent immigrant’s failure to learn local norms, and blames liberal elites for not encouraging integration.
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Race is not just skin color
Starting from Arrian and Strabo’s descriptions of Indians and a 2007 paper on the convergent evolution of light skin in Europeans and East Asians, the author argues race is not…
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Home – Lost, Found and Imagined
Reposts Ruchira Paul’s 2007 personal essay from her Accidental Blogger archive on being an NRI and the idea of home, with an excerpted passage on her late father-in-law, a noted…
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The Mujahid Revolt in Arakan in 1952 (and a SOAS report on the Rohingyas)
Reproduces a 1952 British Foreign Office report on the Mujahid Revolt in Arakan around Burmese independence, followed by a 2005 SOAS researcher’s report, as background to the Rohingya issue.
