Short note and link

Blasphemy meme devours it’s own. JJ, Aamir Liaqat and chickens coming home to roost…

A list of video links on the blasphemy controversy around Junaid Jamshed, including statements by Aamir Liaqat and clerics, under a title suggesting the author sees the blasphemy ‘meme’ turning…

Brown Pundits Archive2 November 20250 comments
Russell Brand is a disaster

A short comment that all are hypocrites, that the Establishment dislikes Russell Brand more than Nigel Farage, that neither shows leadership qualities, and that the Crown remains in a constitutional…

Brown Pundits Archive2 November 20250 comments
Geopolitical Analysis is bunk

A two-sentence fragment, apparently cut off, in which the author says reading the back-and-forths on the world’s conflicts has convinced him that most opinions are unreliable.

Brown Pundits Archive2 November 20250 comments
Arundhati Roy

A short profile of Arundhati Roy, noting her Booker Prize and her controversial views, with links to her statements on Kashmir, big dams, Maoists, the RSS, the Taliban and capitalism.

Brown Pundits Archive2 November 20250 comments
India’s Muslim Headache..

A short note, cut off after one sentence, observing that when India loses a cricket match to Pakistan some Indian Muslims celebrate, most openly in Srinagar.

Omar Ali2 November 20250 comments
competition of different tribal dogmas/worldview

Links to two articles on tribalism, with a note that belief structures can be classified by openness to ideas, attitude to internal differences and attitude to outsiders.

Bharata Bharatavanshi2 November 20250 comments
Ambedkar, Ramanuja and Hope in Hinduism

A comment-style post arguing that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers could criticise caste, and that the coming of Islam hindered India’s moral development.

Bharata Bharatavanshi2 November 20250 comments
HINDU-MUSLIM CONFLICT IN INDIA: A “PRE-COLONIAL” VIEW

Introduces political scientist Ajay Verghese’s argument that communal violence maps onto former princely states, and begins to say the author finds colonial studies infantilising; the post breaks off early.

Shafiq R2 November 20250 comments
Kargil

Reproduces Teresita Schaffer’s review of Peter Lavoy’s edited book on Kargil, which finds Pakistan’s tactical victory became strategic defeat under a nuclear shadow, and shows the army’s self-delusion about India’s…

Omar Ali2 November 20250 comments
The reorientation of Indian nationalism

A short opening observation that resistance to a common political actor shaped most nationalisms, as the wars against the French turned England into a nation.

Vikram2 November 20250 comments