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India and water scarcity
A short pointer to a Wall Street Journal piece on India’s water scarcity, with a caveat that its focus on Leh in Ladakh is an extreme case.
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Letter of General Akhtar Malik (Re Grand Slam)
A 1967 letter in which General Akhtar Hussain Malik gives his account of why he lost command during Operation Grand Slam in 1965, introduced with a short note on the…
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Kashmir After 5 August: Christine Fair’s Summary
After India’s 5 August change to Jammu and Kashmir’s status, the author recommends Christine Fair’s summary and sketches the state’s history, from the Dogra purchase to the 1947 accession after…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 18 August 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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The Ummah for we, but not for thee
The author argues that Pakistanis and other South Asian Muslims feel closer to Arabs and Iranians than those ‘fellow Muslims’ feel to them, and that Saudi Arabia cannot ignore India’s…
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Brown down under
Two links on Aboriginal women’s land under threat and on Afghan and Baluch cameleers in Australia, with the author’s guess that an Arrernte woman named Mahomet carries a cameleer ancestor’s…
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Taking sides when good and evil is unclear
Razib Khan explains why his default on foreign conflicts is mild isolationism when good and evil are unclear.
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This is your independence day!
On India’s Independence Day the author urges the country and its leadership not to be haunted by the past, using Achilles’ speech in the film Troy to argue for agency…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
