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Happy New Year!
A New Year greeting for 2019 in English and Sinhala, wishing readers peace, happiness, health and wealth.
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How Bengalis rejected “genetic improvement”
Quotes an article on how Bangladesh made abortion safer for Rohingya rape victims, notes its figures on sexual violence in 1971, and adds a personal remark about his parents’ friendly…
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A Historic Picture (and some reminiscences about 1971 BD War)
Dr Hamid Hussain explains a photograph of General Sam Manekshaw flying to Pakistan after the 1971 war with two Pakistani Air Force prisoners of war, gives the stories of the…
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Marathas, Mauryas & Moghul
A note on an atlas that moves India from Mughal to Maratha to independence, followed by the author’s theory that desis obsess over skin colour because poor grooming and pollution…
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Bangladesh elections
A post quoting reports on Sheikh Hasina’s third-term win and Bangladesh’s economic gains, with the poster’s comments that the margin seems too big to be credible and that voters may…
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Tony Joseph’s Early Indians
Linking his India Today review of Tony Joseph’s Early Indians, the author generally likes the book and has only minor quibbles with its genetics, though he thinks it over-emphasises aboriginal…
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No such thing as South India
Responding to Rajmohan Gandhi’s article and a tweet denying that ‘South India’ exists, the author suggests caste and creed have dramatically weakened regional identities in India, and that South India…
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Mother India is Communal
Responding to Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s tweet calling ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ communal, the author finds the objection absurd and asks why such Muslim liberals police Indian society rather than challenge…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
