May 2019
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The only time when a Hijab looks good
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Short Note on “outsiders”
Replying to a commenter, the author says he proposed that Persian gradually replace English, not Urdu, in Pakistan, arguing English is the language of elite power and that decolonisation must…
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Lord Indra was a tan man
Responding to Indian discomfort over steppe ancestry, the author argues that Sintashta and Andronovo genetics show Indo-Aryan ancestors were genetically and phenotypically European-like, warns against white-nationalist readings, and says he…
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Are Sikhs Exceptional?
Prompted by a Twitter discussion, the author relays a Mumbai doctor friend’s view that Sikhs are the only group about whom two positive generalisations can be made, that they do…
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China’s demographic disaster impacts Pakistan
Discussing an AP report on Pakistani Christian girls trafficked to China as brides, the author says China’s male surplus drives bride imports, that poor Christian women are easier targets, and…
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What is in a Name? Al Qadir University
The author questions why Imran Khan’s Sufi-inspired university is named ‘Al-Qadir’, the name of God, when it honours Abdul Qadir Jilani, and sees it as the neo-Punjabi habit of adding…
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Pearls of Nonsense About Drones
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Christopher Fuller’s See It/Shoot It, a history of the CIA’s drone programme, as disappointing, arguing it adds nothing, rests on a questionable source, and wrongly…
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Pleistocene rock art in Maharashtra
An extract on two amateur researchers who found about 1,200 rock carvings on the coast south of Mumbai, which may be 20,000 to 40,000 years old, with the poster noting…
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2019 Brown Pundits Reader survey
Announces the 2019 reader survey, noting that comments suggest more South Asian readers than the audience really contains, and urging quieter readers to take part.
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British Asians getting (much) taller?
Noticing that young British Asians at a Cambridge dance class are taller than him, the author links it to Westernised diets, and describes the split between British-born undergraduates and India-born…
