January 2025
-
Swastika: Good Fortune? or Nazi Hate Symbol?
Omar Ali shares an Amish Tripathi video on the swastika and opens a discussion on how pro-Hindu influencers address the question, and whether that approach could be improved.
-
Capsule Review: The World. A Family History of Humanity
A capsule review of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World, praised as a huge, fun book of anecdotes from ancient Egypt to the Kennedys that works well in audio. The reviewer…
-
Gana Sangha and Rajatantra in Ancient Bharat
Script for a video tracing the contest between gana-sangha republics and monarchy in ancient India, from Magadha’s conquest of the Licchavi-led Vajji confederacy to the Gupta alliance with the Licchavis.…
-
Partition’s Impact on India’s Regional Quadrants
Argues that Partition reshaped five regional quadrants of undivided India. It fragmented Punjab and the Indo-Gangetic heartland, diminished Bengal by splitting Kolkata from Dhaka, cut Bombay off from Karachi, and…
-
Capsule Review: A History of the Muslim World
A capsule review of Michael Cook’s A History of the Muslim World, praised as an outstanding survey from the Prophet to the early twentieth century. The reviewer, interested in Indian…
-
Justice Sajjad Ahmed Sipra; 1936-2025
An obituary by his nephew for Justice Sajjad Sipra (1936-2025), who died in Lahore aged 88. It traces his Burma childhood, flight in 1941, post-Partition rise, student politics at Punjab…
