Short note and link

Idolatry runs wild

A report on posters portraying Chief Minister Jayalalithaa as Goddess Lakshmi, which the poster contrasts with the Dravidian movement’s history of breaking Ganesha idols.

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Copts- elites amongst elites

Comments on Gregory Clark’s The Son Also Rises, noting that categories such as Indian Christians and Black Africans are crude and suggesting generation-by-generation data on Indians.

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Appeal for personal law reform…in Pakistan

A report on a Christian man’s challenge in the Lahore High Court to the 1869 Divorce Act, with the poster blaming faux liberals and conservatives alike and colonial legacies.

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Fight to the bitter end

A report on a clash at a British Parliament meeting titled on Narendra Modi and Hindu fascism, with the poster arguing the US visa question may help Modi more than…

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Understanding the geographic context for Islam

The poster says an article’s geographic account fits his long view of Islam as a mercantile, arid faith whose borders track the pork line, and that Russia is a North…

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Flat out prejudice

A story of Captain Zainul Abidin Juvale, who steered 722 Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Iraqi invasion, with the poster urging communities to see poverty and illiteracy, not each…

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A world built on Slavery

A comment, with a Juan Cole link, that Haiti spent most of its budget until 1940 compensating slave-owners for its emancipation, and a reader’s question on the one-drop rule and…

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The victims of partition(s)

A report that gunmen killed four people in Karachi, including Shia scholar Allama Taqi Hadi Naqvi, with the poster’s reflection that minorities and majorities keep being redefined until each person…

Brown Pundits Archive27 February 20140 comments
East Africa’s growth potential from a Private Equity Perspective

A brief comment citing a McKinsey report on East Africa’s growth, saying capital demand will be strongest among medium-cap funds in Anglophone Eastern Africa.

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The americans are keeping (a careful) watch

A report on a Pew survey of Indian voters, with the poster asking why Americans poll India on election eve and what it says about US readiness to align with…

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