Author: X.T.M

In an example of art imitating life; I was in Mahabalipuram last week reading up on the Persian origins of the Pallavas and then somehow there was a thread about it here on BP.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/The-Pallavas-and-the-Pahlavas/article15376550.ece/amp/

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=92zsCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=pallava+iranian&source=bl&ots=Zi67DOl_c9&sig=FQhjHCOl4d7N00KKv6JJkH4sdwM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGg9G3ydvfAhXV5-AKHbOUAXYQ6AEwGXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=pallava%20iranian&f=false

The article I was actually reading (note it’s hideously jingoistic and downright offensive at times):

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/iranian.com/2003/05/14/indias-parthian-colony/amp/

Our South Indian podcast sort of fell through after the lead guest flaked out at the last minute (rather annoying in light that he insisted that we have a Dravidian focus).

We’ll probably now do a more general linguistics-genetics podcast and take it from there.

Ever since I got back from Chennai I’ve been ruminating on the “deep Hinduism”‘of the south. I have a few thoughts on it but it’s difficult to express them succinctly..

We are hoping to record a podcast on this important topic this weekend. Please share any questions you may have in the comment thread.

Of course we won’t be limiting ourselves to this topic but it was the request of our guest commentator, who is looking to correct the “North India” bias in our discourse.

It is not lost on me that apart from our Bang-Pak commentariat, virtually all of our regular commentators either are South Indian or based in South India.

It seems Aryavarta has boycotted BP?

The comments thread talked about the education history of Indian school kids. This is LV’s atlas book that I came across. I found it interesting that India went from Moghul to Maratha to Independence. If only it were so 🙂

On an unrelated topic I have noticed why Desis and third worlders (partially) obsess over skin colour to the extent that we do. People in the third world (generally) have bad complexions in comparison to the West. The skin clarity is poor because of grooming & pollution. So fairness creams are a “hack”‘ to simply improve the “quality” (transparency) of the skin. Also the unfortunate fact remains that colour is correlated with caste & class.

This is such a dangerous deleterious, and also a false thesis

There is no such thing as "South India".

A Telugu speaker is as distant from me as a Maharashtrian. A Keralite is even more distant.https://t.co/XWK1dQRyOe

— श्रीकान्तः (@shrikanth_krish) December 29, 2018

The original article by Mahatma’s grandson is equally intriguing, People of the South constitute an equal and single community: Rajmohan Gandhi.I don’t have too many opinions on this (for a change) but my inclination is that caste (and then creed) have dramatically reduced regional identities in India.

The states that have been most problematic to the Indian Union (East Punjab, Srinagar area, 7 sisters) have more homogenised profiles (and incidentally happen to be on the periphery). Continue reading No such thing as South India

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Javid said stripping offenders of British citizenship would happen only in extreme cases involving individuals with dual nationality.

He was pressed on the issue by the programme’s guest editor, the Pakistani-British writer Kamila Shamsie, who pointed out that the lack of sex offender registers in Pakistan would make it easier for offenders deported from the UK to repeat their crimes.

Javid responded: “I’m the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public.”

Seeking to clarify, Shamsie asked: “If you are sending members of grooming gangs to Pakistan, knowing that there is not a sex offenders registry, what they do there is not anything to do with you?”

Javid said: “My job is to protect the British public.” Continue reading I stand with Sajid on Pakistani Pedophilia

Demonetisation cost India a direct loss of $ 25 billion in lost output. Indirect losses would be about 2 to 3 times that amount.

The loss was more than the loss caused by all the wars that India has fought since 1947. Who is India’s enemy if not ignorance?

— SonaliRanade (@sonaliranade) December 26, 2018

The Indian Property prices took a wobble after demonetisation and despite my admiration for PM Modi, what deeply upsets me is that he attacked the middle classes.

The whole idea of “cleaning up India” is that it needs to be a top down effort. Beyond chasing Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi there are oligarchs in India who cripple the country. Continue reading Demonetisation will lead to DeModisation-

https://twitter.com/dvatw/status/1077870550163300353?s=21

Happy Boxing Day; just had a lovely walk around Chetpet EcoPark. I was shocked to find out that allegedly it cost 25 Crores (allegedly).

Time for Kerala to throw out the communists whose prime goal is destroy Kerala's Hindu culture starting with Sabarimala. Otherwise Kerala will cease to be Kerala and lose its ancient heritage, becoming another failed socialist state.

— Dr David Frawley (@davidfrawleyved) December 26, 2018

There is a trend in the West that the Parties of the Left can only unite their diverse coalitions of minorities (gays, blacks & feminists) with straight middle class male WASPs (Justin Trudeau, Jeremy Corbyn, Beto O’Rouke). Continue reading Why India must become the Hindu Israel!

There’s a mild festive spirit in Chennai; Christmas is au fair and there are enough Christians here to make it merry. Continue reading Happy Christmas from Chennai

An extraordinarily shameful video of BritPaks acting like savages in an English airport.

They really go out of their way to make a fool of themselves.

It’s videos like this that set off the native populations and make them believe that the Islands are being overwhelmed by strange folk.

It’s why I honestly believe that any right-thinking and aspirational coloured (or Person of Colour) would do well to vote for the Tory Party; Labour has compromised with these retrograde elements for far too long.

At the very least if they want to do these Sufi Chants in a public sphere ; they should have half-naked bellydancers (of both sexes) writing suggestively around to assure everyone it’s sexy fierce.

Though it’s a two way relationship as well; after the jump I’ve shared a shockingly offensive tweet by a Remainers suggesting Asian companies don’t honour their commitments. From the way the tweets are written the chap just doesn’t seem on the ball on how to do international business, sorry to say! One shouldn’t take a colonial attitude to the Rising Powers of the East.

Continue reading This is what won Brexit!