The Kirpan and its legality in the West.
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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Friday, 6 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,169 posts · 93,894 comments
I personally don’t know enough about the context of this but coincidentally this article was in my inbox today:
“Henry Nowak’s death shames Britain”
By Aris Roussinos
https://unherd.com/2026/06/henry-nowaks-death-shames-britain/
“Now, two decades later, I marvel at her ability to dance between a purer Deccani, a dialect indigenous and spurred by the Golconda king Qū Qūlī Quṭub Shāh, founder of Haiderabad, with his marriage of Telugu and Persian, later mixed with Marathi– and a formal Pakistani Urdu; sometimes her noun-plurals would be the wāw–nūn, birthed in northern India, and the alif-nūn plural of the Deccan (larkān and larkōn are common distinctions between the two dialects), depending on her audience.”
Pakistani Urdu is formal? Very interesting this reminds us of Scottish Highland English which is more “English” than the lowlander English since the Highlander took to English in the last few centuries..
Pakistani Urdu feels like that perhaps?
yes it’s getting to be quite the issue. The attack claimed the victim tried to pull his turban, which was untrue, so the police arrested the victim. The victim had been stabbed multiple times and claimed he couldn’t breathe, which the police ignored. He collapsed to the ground and died.
Britain is outraged as this is a series of “ethnic attacks” (as your link shows).
Horrifying frankly. I just don’t know what’s the world’s coming to. Why is violence the first response???
Very tragic indeed and it’s causing a bit of a mini earthquake in the UK.