October 2020
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Their Muslim Problem—And Ours
On the row over an advertisement showing an interfaith marriage, the author argues critics dodge its gendered side, since Islam allows Muslim men but not women to marry out, and…
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From OIT to AIT
The author traces his move from supporting the Out of India theory to the Aryan migration view, citing recent genetic evidence, and sets out his reasons after a long conversation…
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Problems with the terms INDIC and DHARMIC
The author says he cringes at the terms Indic and Dharmic, now popular with the rise of Hindutva as umbrella words for native Indian faiths, arguing Indic first described Indo-Aryan…
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Climate change is a development problem
The author argues that climate change in Bangladesh is mainly a development problem: even extreme sea-level scenarios would flood only a small part of the country, and subsistence farming on…
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Beyond the Bangladeshi basket-case
A quoted report that Bangladesh’s per capita GDP, $1,905 in 2019 on IMF data, now exceeds West Bengal’s $1,566 and most eastern Indian states, with the poster noting Bangladesh is…
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Economic data on South Asia
So what are the reasons for various differences statistically?
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Noakhali rape victim video
Quoting Human Rights Watch on protests in Bangladesh after a viral video of a woman being assaulted, and a news report on how widely it spread, the poster asks why…
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Open Thread – 10/10/2020
Open thread, 10 October 2020: previews of upcoming patron podcasts, including Michael Fortner on his book Black Silent Majority and Devang Mehta on fixing science, plus a talk with a…
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NCERT Books – Early Muslim invaders
Reviewing how Satish Chandra’s, Romila Thapar’s and NIOS history textbooks treat pre-Delhi Sultanate Muslim invaders, the author argues Hindutva criticism of these left-liberal historians is often overstated and straw-manned, and…
