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Hindu Wife killed by ex for marrying Muslim man
A short comment on the crossbow killing of a mother of five, a Hindu woman who converted to Islam to marry, with the author noting the ‘Muslim’ angle would have…
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Indian culture started when the British arrived: tales of shadology
Citing a study of skin-colour bias in arranged Indian marriages, the author notes fair-skinned candidates were preferred and found no sex difference, and turns to the paper’s framing of colour…
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Skin color of South Asian groups
Prompted by a new review of the genetics of human skin, the author shares melanin-index data for Indian caste groups from a paper on South Asian skin colour, set against…
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London(istan)
The author observes that the English of the Home Counties are more guarded about demographic change than Scots, and adds that South Asians always see themselves as a minority because…
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Dynamics of the Saudi Royal Family
Hamid Hussain’s 2017 backgrounder on how the Saudi royal family works argues that absolute monarchy is opaque, decided by decree and palace intrigue, and describes governance by the sons of…
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Some controversial thoughts on Remembrance Day & Kashmir
The author finds Remembrance Day’s ‘freedom’ framing tiresome since Indians who fought for the Empire stayed subjects, then reflects on a play about Kashmir, arguing Kashmiris are themselves in revolt…
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Racism at its best
A short anecdote that, at a Cambridge college bar’s Diwali night with Indian women in saris dancing, a student whispered that it ‘actually looks like Pakistan’, offered as an example…
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Why does India need so much Coloniser Validation?
A short post asking why India needs so much ‘coloniser validation’, noting the Incredible India adverts feature foreigners rediscovering India while Tibet drew 30 million visitors in nine months, which…
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Failing to be British-
A brief comment on a comedy clip, recalling an earlier post on Aziz Ansari and Hasan Minhaj as two models of integration versus assimilation, and saying the author proudly fails…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
