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An American twist on “joint-family” (?)
Quotes a tweet by Eliezer Yudkowsky claiming polyamory is the future because two-parent homes can no longer afford children, under a title likening it to the joint family.
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White Privilege & Protesting
The author contrasts how a white male MP who grabbed a Greenpeace protester was defended while a black female MP was punished, and argues that white and coloured activists in…
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How the RSS saved Srinagar?
A forwarded account, citing a book, claiming that RSS volunteers cleared snow from Srinagar airport overnight in wartime so that Indian troops could land and the airport stayed out of…
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A Clarion Call for Change of Culture of Politics in West Bengal
Reports a protest by Bengalis and other Indians at the Gandhi statue in Parliament Square on 19 June 2019 against alleged political violence in West Bengal, urging the Indian government…
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Launch of my theatre company
The author announces he is a co-founding trustee of a new theatre company open to anyone who self-identifies as a minority.
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The Ideal and the Practical — the Practice
Posting a quote that did not fit a comment thread, the author reads Chuang Tzu’s cook story as showing that Lao Tzu’s ideal of emptiness leaves room for practical play,…
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Are all Arabs “honorary” Muslims?
Starting from whether Pakistanis treat all Arabs as honorary Muslims, the author argues that South Asian identities split along a Hindi-Urdu civilisational fault line, citing the choices made by Bengalis…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
