September 2018
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Energy Vampire or Street Fighter
Shares a video of the yoga teacher Guru Dandapani, whom the poster realises resembles Street Fighter’s Dhalsim, then pastes Wikipedia material on how the character is received and criticised as…
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Ahmedis and Pakistan. Some background..
Prompted by economist Atif Mian’s removal from Imran Khan’s advisory council, the author gives background on the Ahmedi movement: its origins in 19th-century Punjab, its role in the Pakistan movement,…
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Seems pretty f*cking racist to me
Condemns a cartoonist’s depiction of Serena Williams as racist and sexist, noting Naomi Osaka was drawn as blonde, and mocks a male cartoonist defending a male umpire as peak privilege.
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The Munda as upland rice cultivators
Reading a history of Vietnam, the author, a geneticist, argues the Munda are not South Asia’s aboriginals but descend from male-mediated Austro-Asiatic migration, probably between 2000 and 1000 BCE, and…
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The Muslim intrusion into India was probably inevitable
The author argues that Muslim conquest of India was probably inevitable whatever any single battle’s outcome, because between 500 and 1500 pastoralists from Inner Asia dominated agricultural civilisations across Eurasia,…
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Open Thread
An open thread inviting readers to discuss whatever they like, asking that other posts stay on topic.
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Why India looks West not East
Answering Razib’s question on why India does not look towards China, the author offers three reasons: Sindhi diaspora ties, lingering colonial institutions, and the claim that India’s high culture was…
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The education of the people of Tianzhu
Noting Shakespeare in India’s ruling decriminalising homosexuality, the author argues the English-speaking Indian elite remains oriented to the West even as China overtakes Britain in trade, and urges Indians to…
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Iran Pakistan border
Shares a Turkish-language video contrasting the Pakistani and Iranian sides of the Balochistan border, with the poster’s caveat that it is hard to translate, plus links to Drew Binsky’s Iran…
