November 2017
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What does Ajit Pai’s race have anything to do with net neutrality?
Reacts to Hari Kondabolu’s remarks on FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s race, arguing that racialising a net-neutrality dispute could encourage more white identity politics and make the cause less popular.
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Padamavati
Asks what Indian commentators make of the Padmavati furore, after the film’s release was postponed indefinitely.
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Moody’s backs Modi, upgrades India’s sovereign rating for first time in 14 years
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Basmati Blues
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Children’s Day
Marking Children’s Day in India, argues that societies fretting about being ‘outbred’ need a cultural, not legal, approach to child-rearing, with couples securing their careers first.
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The Myth of Muslim Fecundity?
Using Ambedkar’s book on Pakistan and 1935 figures for Sindh and Bengal, the author argues non-Muslim population shares have held up despite poorer Muslim minorities, and that the ‘myth of…
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The right amount of Love
Discussing a critique of Jinnah for casting out his daughter Dina Wadia, the author does not condone it but argues ideology can reasonably outweigh attachment, and adds a passage on…
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How the Other Half Dies..
Shares an older video of a Hazara boy speaking about Pakistan, saying the Hazaras’ situation has probably not improved much, and asks readers what they think.
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Review: The Holocaust, A New History
Reviews Laurence Rees’s The Holocaust: A New History, a readable and horrifying account from post-First World War Germany onward, and finds reasonable Rees’s case that aspects of this genocide justify…
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Rest in Peace Dina Wadia
Notes the death of Dina Wadia, Jinnah’s daughter, and links her thoughts on her father and on Pakistan.
