Azad Essa writes on his Substack:
On Wednesday, Modi is scheduled to return to Israel for a two-day visit that Netanyahu says will underscore what he describes as a “special relationship” between the two countries – language typically reserved for US–Israel ties.
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I removed this link because it’s just provocative
Why? It’s a serious historical discussion.
Manu Pillai is talking about the issues raised in his book “Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity”.
I have no interest in discussing this topic; you would immediately weaponise Islamophobia if we had a similar discussion/
to thine own self be true-
Just to clarify that I would not claim “Islamophobia” if a serious academic historian was presenting their work.
there are many serious academic histories on the early origins of Islam
Sure. And I have no issues with them being discussed. I wouldn’t label such a discussion “Islamophobic”.
I’m not particularly religious so I’m not that intellectually interested in Islam.
For me Pakistan is more important than Islam per se.
Earlier we all thought that nehru’s policy towards Palestine was for anti west policies. There was a feeble jansangh voice which said it was for Muslim votes. Sadly this has been proved right.
The Indian genius was recognition of full Israeli relations,which happened during Yasser Arafat’s visit to india
I have renamed it Kabir’s Open Thread. You can post it as a post about PM Modi.
I don’t agree with Kabir’s hyper editing but he is allowed to do what he likes on his Open Thread.
But I would genuinely be interested to see what India’s relationships are to both Palestine & Iran in this iteration.
Yes but going to Israel when it’s threatening to attack Iran.. is rather bemusing optics
“Kashmiri novelist Mirza Waheed on identity, Islamophobia, and Maryam & Son| Kashmir Notebook Ep 11”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TJWeOClqs
I removed your latest post; I now want to see a much higher proportion of novel content in each new post please.