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Culture can be more powerful than biology
Sharing an interview with the author of a memoir on honour in Pakistan, the geneticist author argues honour killing shows that culture and kinship incentives can override biology, since fathers…
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Turan seeks peace..
An extract from a news report that Pakistan’s army, under Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, quietly reached out to India about resuming peace talks and trade, and that the response was…
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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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How Buddhism spread in Asia and lessons for the Modern World
Starting from a map of Buddhism’s spread, the author calls it India’s best demonstration of soft power, then speculates on why the Hindi belt produces religions, and argues India would…
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The Thought of You, Perfect 10 winner at the Mumbai Film Festival
A short note on a 15-minute English-language film that won at the Mumbai Film Festival, starring Kalki Koechlin: the author gives it six out of ten, finding the story punchy…
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Review: Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hamid Hussain reviews Steve Coll’s Directorate S as an excellent, mainly American-sourced account of the Af-Pak region, stressing that CIA-ISI relations were not black and white, that ISI is not…
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The Urdu-Speaking Inheritance
Shares a speech by Senator Faruqi, praising the Urdu-speaking inheritance as defiant, liberal, just and aristocratic.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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