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Why I Repeated Aasia Bibi’s Alleged Words
The author defends repeating the words Aasia Bibi was accused of saying, arguing that sanitising the allegation sanitises the cruelty, and that freedom of expression means little unless it protects…
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Why has Imran Khan aged so badly-
Wondering why Imran Khan looks so much older than a Gulf ruler he once posed with, the author blames earlier drinking and a late return to religion, then reflects on…
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Brown Pundits Podcast #2 – Asia Bibi and Colorism
Brown Pundits Podcast number 2, a long episode of more than an hour and a half, covers the Asia Bibi case and colorism, as its title makes clear, and asks…
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Biryani Night
Reporting on a Cambridge South Asian Forum screening of the Kashmiri film Harud, the author describes a round table where he argued that India cannot understand its Muslim minority and…
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Tweet of the Day
Reacting to a tweet, the author argues that everyone is tribal to some degree, that the secular Western left has adopted a policing of thought, and that the East is…
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Hum Hindu Nahin
Prompted by a thread on Sikh history, the author describes the Tat Khalsa tract Hum Hindu Nahin and argues for a pervasive ‘low Hinduism’ beneath South Asia, visible in Pakistani…
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How India own-goaled itself on Kashmir
After a Kashmiri Pandit’s story of exile, the author asks what India’s end-goal in the Valley was, then wanders to the Deoband-Barelvi divide, Brexit and the class and skin-colour divisions…
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Book Review: The Stan
Reviewing the graphic anthology The ‘Stan by Kevin Knodell and David Axe, the reviewer finds an anti-war book that humanises American soldiers and Afghans alike, but with little strategic big…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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