Short note and link
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Sometimes we don’t need to talk about it
A fragment, cut off, about the millennial media genre of ‘We Need to Talk About’ think-pieces, which the author says are often navel-gazing.
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The Indian caste of mind
The author says a friend active in Democratic politics asks why India has caste when other regions do not, and concludes from it that Hinduism is a messed-up religion, while…
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India, Pakistan, TNT
Two tweets set side by side: one urging Pakistanis to see themselves as Muslims within India’s ancient civilisation, the other insisting that the only identity is ‘Muslim’, with an Ertuğrul…
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Atlas of the 1971 War
Reproduces the text of John H. Gill’s An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, with its contents and preface, which calls the war the most important conflict between the two…
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Reproduces a Pakistani officer’s account of the weeks after the 1971 ceasefire, including a reported letter from officers of 6 Armoured Division asking President Yahya to resign, and the subsequent…
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Reproduces an obituary of Lahore police officer Lonsdale Niblett, who died in Virginia aged 93, recalling his career from the Punjab Police in 1947, his choice of Pakistan at Partition…
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When language replacement occurs with minority demographic impact
A ‘core dump’ of examples where a language spread with little genetic impact, including Hungarian with perhaps 1 to 10 per cent Ugric ancestry, most Romance languages, and Turkic in…
