May 2018
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Review: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Omar Ali reviews Muhammad Iqbal’s The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, tracing its origin in lectures given in Madras, Hyderabad and Aligarh in the late 1920s and the book’s…
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Ali Aftab Saeed has a Vlog..
Omar Ali notes that the singer Ali Aftab Saeed, known for ‘aloo anday’, has begun a vlog commenting on the news, and finds the first two episodes funny.
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Bombay – the Billionaire’s playground
X.T.M muses that Sindhis include many millionaires but fewer billionaires, and that Bombay’s overlapping circle of politicians, cricketers, Bollywood and industrial families is creating an elite unlike any other, with…
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Stolen Loot in British Museum
Sbarrkum asks which artefacts in the UK should be returned, quoting the British Museum’s note on a gilded Tara bodhisattva from Sri Lanka, ‘given’ by Governor Robert Brownrigg, who captured…
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Carbon Steel and Zinc in India
Sbarrkum, prompted by a reader comment, assembles excerpts on early Indian zinc distillation in retorts and on wootz carbon steel from southern India, which he says is thought to be…
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1900’s: Betrayal and change in China’s Perception of the West
Sbarrkum, excerpting a moonofalabama post, argues that China had a Westernised elite like South Asia’s, with figures such as Wellington Koo, and that the West’s failure to honour agreements those…
