May 2019
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Live Blogging-Endangered Zoroastrian Heritage of Iran
Live notes on Saloumeh Gholami’s talk on endangered Zoroastrian heritage in Kerman and Yazd, especially Zoroastrian Dari (Gavri), a critically endangered language closer to Kurdish than Persian, losing speakers to…
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Eight-way tie for the bee
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The Patiala Problem
Recounts a story told at a Cambridge gathering of a Hindu neighbourhood in Patiala fearing men in Muslim dress, who turned out to be selling walnuts, and argues that honest…
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Nasim Zehra’s Book on Kargil. Review by Maj Amin
Major Agha H Amin’s review attacks Nasim Zehra’s book on Kargil as published twenty years too late, disputes her praise of Lieutenant General Javed Hassan, and lists what he calls…
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The Jahanara debate & how Desis must dress
The author compares Pakistani, Iranian and Hindi pronunciations of the name Jahanara, argues Urdu grew from a Hindustani standard once called Hindi, notes how much of India’s medieval history is…
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Noorie Abbas / We SHOULD Have Confidence in Modi’s Government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIWkzugGDs
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Indian pluralism and a pluralistic India for a Brighter Future of Humanity
A speaker at Leicester argues that India has always been a coming-together of disparate identities, so being Hindu and Indian means being pluralistic, defining Dharma as a natural order sustained…
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Unbelievable podcast with Prof. Devji
Reports recording a podcast with Professor Devji, praising his dense knowledge, and notes a friendly argument over calling Modi ‘Maharajah’, a royal habit Devji says Hindutva itself uses.
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I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.
Responding to a comment that the blog pertains to South Asians, the author asks what that means for each reader, weighs Naipaul’s view of Muslim-background people shorn of Indian roots,…
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Browncast into June….
Thanks podcast patrons, says no public episodes will appear until 1 June, and previews coming conversations on the Indian elections, Game of Thrones, open science and American life.
