Society, caste and identity
Caste, ethnicity, gender, family and community.
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the state of Sindh
A tweeted observation from Sindh that the poster found a boy and his friends working in fields who knew no one who had been to school.
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Society
Can inter-sect marriages save Pakistani society?
An extract on a young Pakistani woman, with a Shia father and Sunni mother, who refuses to choose a sect, asking whether inter-sect marriages could help heal sectarian divides.
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Science
Bengalis are like Tamils, and Jatts are sui generis, and Syrian Christians are not Brahmins
Reading Zack Ajmal’s Harappa DNA sample, the author concludes that Bengalis, like Tamils, show a genetic split between Brahmins and non-Brahmins, that Jatts stand apart as a distinct group, and…
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Society
A lonely BP
Shares two pieces from Centre India, including Harsh Gupta on how India’s centre-left builds a coalition of Christians, dalits, tribals and the poor, within the tension between inclusion and nationalist…
