2018

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Pressure on Social Media in Pakistan

Omar Ali cites a BBC report on military-linked contractors monitoring perceived dissenters, and an email from a friend removed from an elite WhatsApp group after criticising army policy over Nawaz…

Omar Ali16 May 201816 comments
Gamal Abdel Nasser on Hijab 1958

How times have changed

sbarrkum16 May 20188 comments
Intellectual Dark Web

The author defines the ‘intellectual dark web’ as a convergence of thinkers from the European enlightenment, hard sciences, technology and eastern philosophy, lists its supposed members including Razib Khan, and…

BP Admin Team · opened by AnAn14 May 201821 comments
Post Modernism in India

A reader, froginthewell, answers why the BJP does little about alleged discrimination against Hindus, pointing to minority-affairs funding, namaz spaces and textbooks, and argues that politicians balance interest groups and…

AnAn13 May 201814 comments
A must watch

Sbarrkum recommends a 1979 musical travelogue film through Iran, Afghanistan and India, singling out the Bauls and the young Paban Das Baul, and argues that travel teaches more than reading…

sbarrkum13 May 20180 comments
When writing about India is actually just writing about America

Razib Khan argues that a Slate piece on the show Friends, billed as about India, was really about the worries of Western liberals, since the show has little influence on…

Razib Khan13 May 2018104 comments
Raazi

X.T.M asks whether anyone at BP has seen Raazi, and excerpts a Deccan Chronicle review of Meghna Gulzar’s espionage thriller, which the review says takes neither side and stresses patriotism…

X.T.M12 May 20183 comments
Welcome back Mahathir Mohamad, Hero of Asia!

The author welcomes Mahathir Mohamad back as Malaysia’s prime minister, praising him as an elder statesman who made Malaysia rich and diverse, and presents the country as pro-business, pro-globalisation and…

AnAn11 May 201823 comments
India as the hydra against Islam

Razib Khan asks why India stayed mostly non-Muslim after some five centuries of Muslim rule, and rejects the claim that violent resistance explains it, noting that Iran’s Tabaristan kept Zoroastrian…

Razib Khan11 May 2018104 comments
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Razib Khan10 May 20180 comments