June 2018
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Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
Razib Khan reviews John Keay’s journalist-written history of South Asia since Partition, saying he learned little but that it reinforced his view that ideologues citing extreme casualty figures do a…
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Why I don’t eat Pork
Prompted by a video asking why secular Muslims avoid pork, X.T.M calls pork the ultimate shibboleth, compares religious red lines such as alcohol for Bahá’ís and beef for Hindus, and…
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Sheryl Sandberg desi lookalike speaks out against Trump
X.T.M shares Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s speech condemning the child separation crisis at the US border as a human rights violation, and adds an aside on her resemblance to Sheryl Sandberg.
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Open Thread
Open thread of 20 June 2018 for general discussion; readers are asked to keep other posts on topic.
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Kashmir
With the Kashmir government fallen, X.T.M says he would prefer the LoC as a soft border with no redrawing of the map, and warns he will delete comments that turn…
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Indian Religious Landscape Survey
Omar Ali invites readers to take a three-question survey on what they think will happen to India’s religious landscape and why, as input to a later post, and asks for…
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Avtar Singh Khalsa: Lion of Afghanistan
The author profiles Avtar Singh Khalsa, a Sikh member of the Afghan Parliament who reaches out to the Taliban for peace, and quotes a report of a Herat peace meeting,…
