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Operation Grand Slam (1965 War)
A long extract from Major Agha Humayun Amin’s book on the 1965 India-Pakistan war covering Operation Grand Slam, with key passages highlighted for readers wanting the short version.
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Was There a Sugar Conspiracy?
Omar Ali shares a balanced Science article on whether a ‘sugar conspiracy’ really existed in the nutrition wars, concluding not in a sense that could go to court.
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Two Videos in Urdu (both having problems with the language)
Omar Ali compares two Urdu videos, one from a Pakistani elite journalist and one from a woman from Kasur, to argue that neither speaker’s Urdu is their mother tongue and…
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Persian & Ranjit Singh
A quoted extract noting that Ranjit Singh promoted Punjabi literacy yet kept Persian as the court language, perhaps for administrative convenience, posted by X.T.M.
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10 Indians who have made a global marki
X.T.M posts his wife’s list of Indians and Pakistanis who have made a global impact, with his and Kabir’s additions, noting Pakistanis do not scale the same peaks as Indians.
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Counter factual
X.T.M poses a counterfactual: would a typical Shudra peasant in UP be better off today without British rule, without Turkish incursion, or if Ashoka had replaced Hinduism with Buddhism, noting…
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The Coming Information Apocalypse..
Omar Ali shares a long article in which technologist Aviv Ovadya warns of AI-assisted fake news and falsified reality over the next two decades.
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The Sun that Rose From the Earth
Kabir Altaf reviews Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s The Sun That Rose From the Earth, novellas about the lives and works of Urdu poets such as Mir and Ghalib in the late…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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