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Brown Pundits
16th cavalry: a historic picture, and an anecdote from Kashmir
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Brown Pundits
Gary Taubes and Sam Harris discuss the obesity epidemic
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The Warburtons; An Anglo-Afghan-Indian Dynasty
Hamid Hussain tells the story of the Warburtons, an Anglo-Afghan-Indian dynasty founded by Robert Warburton, an Irish Bengal Artillery officer who commanded Shah Shuja’s King’s Own Artillery in the First…
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Politics
Islam is Breaking the Back of the Liberal Democratic Consensus
Dr Abdul Majeed Abid argues that Islam may be the rock on which the Western liberal democratic consensus is breaking, citing Turkey and France, while the editor adds that loyalty…
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Brown Pundits
Blasphemy and Blasphemy laws. The Big Picture
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Geopolitics
Pakistan: Managing the Coalition Business
Hamid Hussain examines Pakistan’s decision to let recently retired army chief General Raheel Sharif head the Saudi-led coalition, noting that neither government nor general has clarified the terms, nature, objectives…
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Review: Age of Anger. Pankaj Mishra
An admitted rant rather than a review, aimed less at Pankaj Mishra personally than at the postliberal Eurocentric elite he writes for and who admire him, taking issue with Age…
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Review. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
Hamid Hussain recommends a review of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw: The Man and His Times by Behram and Zenobia Panthaki, offering Manekshaw’s conduct as a model for Indian and Pakistani…
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A Few Questions re Trumpistan..
Posing questions on Trump’s America, the author argues Trump and his advisers truly believe the United States is in a fight to the death with Islam, with Putin as ally,…
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The INA (Indian National Army)
Hamid Hussain recounts the Indian National Army, formed in the Second World War from Indian prisoners captured by the Japanese, against the rapid wartime expansion of the Indian Army and…
