August 2018
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Sons of Pakistani Bus Drivers
Reading a piece on Sajid Javid as favourite to succeed Theresa May, the author expects a contest between two sons of Pakistani bus drivers in British politics, finds Sadiq Khan…
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Why I don’t accept the para-Munda hypothesis
The author rejects Michael Witzel’s idea that a Munda-like language dominated the Indus and Gangetic plains, arguing from language, Y-chromosome and ancient DNA that the Munda arrived from Southeast Asia…
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Lawyer Asama Javed is ‘fixer for forced marriage’
Links a report alleging a Bradford lawyer acted as a fixer for forced marriages, then argues the British Muslim community needs cleansing, that this is a Muslim rather than Pakistani…
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What if everything that’s not a disease is polygenic?
Noting a new Cell paper finding no evidence of recent selection at FOXP2, once dubbed the language gene, because the original signal reflected sample composition, the author uses it to…
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Rakhigarhi sneak-peaks
Noting that the Indian press is finally reporting the substance of the Rakhigarhi results, the author urges waiting for the paper but says what he has heard matches Outlook India,…
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Iranian and Indian Fields Medallist; Mr. Birkar and Mr. Venkatesh
Celebrating Fields Medallists Caucher Birkar and Akshay Venkatesh, the author claims Birkar as the second Iranian winner in a row after Mirzakhani, calls him British Iranian, and notes Venkatesh is…
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Around the Brown World
A roundup of links including Indians rescuing a cow from a flooded river, a call to hang those behind a goat gang-rape in Haryana, a profile of Imran Khan, Pakistani…
