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Review: The Buddha and the Sahibs and Ashoka—The Search for India’s Lost Emperor
Sunil Koswatta reviews Charles Allen’s two books on how British Orientalists rediscovered Ashoka and the Buddha. It praises Allen’s storytelling and the honest scholars among the sahibs, and dwells on…
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Two Dosas
A short film about a love story set in an Indian restaurant, shared with a note that the author could not find the Western pop video he was looking for.
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Review: In Their Own Words, Understanding Lashkar e Tayyaba
by C Christine Fair
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How Pakistan Got Divided
Major Amin reviews General Rao Farman Ali’s How Pakistan Got Divided and finds it another disappointing book that whitewashes the real causes of 1971. He argues ethnicity was decisive, tracing…
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Interview: Cecil Choudhry and MG Hidayat Niazi
Major Amin shares excerpts from his 2001 interview with Pakistan Air Force veteran Cecil Choudhry and Major General Hidayat Niazi, covering weak intelligence before the wars, the finest officers and…
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Ordered to Die; A History of the Ottoman Army in WWI
A quick review by Major Amin of Edward Erickson’s Ordered to Die, which he calls a must-read. He accepts its view that the Ottomans lacked the logistics for the war…
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The Last Hurdle to Afghan Peace
Major Amin interleaves bolded comments into Brigadier Simon Saraf’s piece on the Afghan peace process. He rejects the Pakistani nationalist reading, arguing that the US has no strategy, that Trump…
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The religious and genetic structure of Bengal & Partition
Razib Khan notes that Partition sorted Bengal by religion, with Hindus falling from about a quarter to a tenth of Bangladesh, mostly through migration. He argues that this one-way movement…
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Afghanistan. Exit to Chaos?
The author argues that Trump is right to want out of Afghanistan but will probably waste what gains remain, and that the blame for failure will wrongly fall on corrupt…
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BrownCast Episode 12: The global China, with Carl Zha
Razib Khan talks to Carl Zha about how the media portrays China, whether China is a colonialist power in Africa, Christianity in China and the diaspora, and ethnic relations involving…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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