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Open Thread
Please keep the other posts on topic. Use this for talking about whatever you want to talk about.
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Western Asians are Western
Responding to a tweet on ‘woke’ Asian minorities, the author argues many Asian Americans are culturally Western, so their progressive politics refracts Asian culture through a Western lens, and that…
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Crazy Rich Asians is not social work
Dismissing the demand for ‘representation’, the author argues critiques of Crazy Rich Asians in Singapore are simplistic, that Chinese-Indian racism there runs both ways, and that giving English and Mandarin…
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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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Quick Thoughts-
A set of quick thoughts: Vajpayee’s death marks a gentler India giving way to Modi’s, India’s upper classes are Westernising, Pakistan needs a ‘Pakistan of the Provinces’ under Imran Khan,…
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VS Naipaul (and Prime Minister Imran Khan)..
Back from a move, the author offers quick notes on V. S. Naipaul’s death, defending him against the charge of white supremacy as a writer who tried to see things…
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Hinduism was not invented by the British (or Muslims)
Disagreeing with the view that Hindu identity was manufactured by colonialism or by Muslims, the author argues Megasthenes, al-Biruni and Faxian already saw Indians as a distinct people, and that…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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