Short note and link

the Sanskrit tongue was chilled at 500metres

Notes on a book’s geographic account of Eurasia, including how Indian civilisation was a lowland phenomenon, Sanskrit’s reach, and Pakistan and Iraq as illogically drawn states.

Brown Pundits Archive26 February 20148 comments
Institutional Racism affects Sikh Marathon Runner

An ESPN profile of Fauja Singh, the Sikh marathon runner who ran his first marathon in his eighties and kept racing past 100, posted under a title about institutional racism.

Brown Pundits Archive26 February 20140 comments
Playing fields of Peshawar

A report on a suicide attack claimed by a militant commander’s spokesman, with the poster saying Peshawar would be the capital of a Taliban emirate and that Chaudhry Nisar’s peace…

Brown Pundits Archive24 February 20140 comments
Don’t cry for me, Parsi

An older article on how the shrinking Parsi community, now under 70,000 and concentrated in Mumbai, has started a vulture programme to restore the birds on which its funerary Towers…

Brown Pundits Archive24 February 20141 comment
The bounds of decency

A report on the daughter of convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi case pleading for her father’s release, with the poster arguing that regional identity shields gangsters and that Modi’s electoral…

Brown Pundits Archive22 February 20141 comment
Why Islam Haunts India

The poster shares photographed pages from Robert Kaplan’s chapter on India, ‘Why Islam Haunts India’, calling it a must-read on subcontinental geopolitics.

Brown Pundits Archive21 February 20144 comments
Welcome to the newborn (#29)

A note that the Telangana bill has passed both houses of Parliament, creating India’s 29th state, which the poster sees as honouring Gandhi’s stress on local rule over Delhi elites.

Brown Pundits Archive21 February 20140 comments
Adieu to Asia

A brief note on leaving Cambodia for Uganda, noting how different Phnom Penh and Kampala are in organisation and that Bombay airport is spectacular.

Brown Pundits Archive19 February 20140 comments
Good news

A report that the Supreme Court has allowed Muslims to adopt despite personal law, with the poster welcoming a step towards secular law and asking why Indian Muslim law forbids…

Brown Pundits Archive19 February 20142 comments
Brown in space

A report on India’s $75 million Mars mission, far cheaper than NASA’s Maven, with the poster asking how an institutional science culture said to be lethargic produced it.

Brown Pundits Archive18 February 20144 comments