March 2019
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Alliance with Pakistan matters more to China than terrorism
An extract arguing that China’s veto at the UN on designating Masood Azhar shows its alliance with Pakistan outweighs terrorism concerns. China treats Pakistan as a low-cost secondary deterrent that…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
A standing open thread: readers are asked to keep other posts on topic and use this one for anything they like.
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SATYASHRAMA: A CONCEPTION OF DHARMIC POLITICS
A friend’s piece, posted by Zach, proposes ‘Satyashrama’, a dharmic politics built on the Vedic notion of Rta and the individual’s swadharma. The author argues for an economy of social…
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Guest Post: India, a wounded civilization
Rohit Pradhan argues that the Bangalore Karachi Bakery episode, where a mob forced it to cover the Karachi name, reveals India’s psychological wounds. He blames a nihilistic nationalism that the…
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In memoriam: Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir.
Hamid Hussain remembers Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir, who took his own life on 15 March 2019 and in a note blamed harassment by the National Accountability Bureau. He recalls their…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 24: Shadi Hamid, American politics, Egyptian politics, being online
The host talks to Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution, author of Islamic Exceptionalism, about religious minorities in Egypt, being politically heterodox online, and the role of religion in his…
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Pakistanis must give up “tit for tat”
Zach argues that Pakistanis must drop ‘tit for tat’ over the Cambridge Majlis logo carrying Vande Mataram, a hymn to a mother goddess, and says Islamicate culture arrived with conquest.…
