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Two Innocent Bangladeshis Executed in Mecca: What Ta’zir Means
On 14 October Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshis, Nazrul Islam Abdul Basir and Siti Akhtar, for what its Interior Ministry called immoral acts inside a mosque in Mecca. A Facebook post by the Pakistani journalist Ali K Chishti applauded the executions and said that “capital punishment is in Quran”. That is true. However it is not what the court relied on. Continue reading →
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Arikamedu: The Port That Traded with Rome
Arikamedu, about four kilometres south of Pondicherry on the Ariyankuppam river, is one of India’s best-known excavated ports with evidence of trade with the Roman world. Agni visited on 17 October; the photographs are hers.
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Brown Pundits on Autopilot: 240 Regular Readers, 14 Commenters
Brown Pundits has been on autopilot since the redesign on 1 October. The Open Threads come round with the festival calendar, the latest comments sit at the top of the homepage, and the conversation carries on whether or not anyone posts.
