I was not browsing an archive or reading a colonial memoir. I was looking at an AI summary produced by Googleâs Gemini system. What stopped me cold was not the history. It was the voice. Islam was described as an âobstacle to civilisation.â French colonialism was reframed as a âcivilising mission.â Muslim societies appeared as … Continue reading F*ck Your Algorithm, My People Are Still Colonised
What people are missing in the Greenland debate is not a technicality of citizenship or electoral legality. It is the structure of power that keeps repeating itself across the settler-colonial West. This is not really about whether the Greenlandic Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, can lawfully hold office. Of course he can. He has a Danish … Continue reading Greenland, Trump, and the Comfort of White Intermediaries
Rebuttal to When RSS-Modi Attack Macaulay and English, They Attack Upward Mobility of Dalits, Shudras, Adivasis Follow-Up to Macaulay, Macaulayputras, and their discontents A new orthodoxy has taken hold. It claims that criticising Macaulay or colonial education is an attack on Dalit, Shudra, and Adivasi mobility. English, we are told, was not a colonial instrument … Continue reading Macaulay, English, and the Myth of Colonial Liberation
The latest Islamist-terrorist atrocity hit the city of Brussels. The attackers no doubt think they are about to meet their 72 virgins. I have nothing new to say about this, but am posting excerpts from two previous posts (one written after the Paris attacks, the second after the San Bernadino attack) that may shed some … Continue reading Islamist Terrorism versus Western Civ. Some Random Thoughts
Islam comes into it just as british are brought into it to explain harmful effects of colonialism to understand the relative under development. Europe succeeded because of 3 things, science, printing and freedom to criticize, India was the pre eminent place for new math and astronomy, it allowed freedom to criticize, atheists existed in India … Continue reading
An awful lot can be said about the India-Pakistan conflict and what is said is heavily dependent on how the writer sees the world and what he or she wants it to become. Now that the latest round of proposed “National Security Adviser Talks” has fizzled, a lot is being said about who is to … Continue reading Pakistan and India. The Long View.. (updated)
An awful lot can be said about the India-Pakistan conflict and what is said is heavily dependent on how the writer sees the world and what he or she wants it to become. Now that the latest round of proposed âNational Security Adviser Talksâ has fizzled, a lot is being said about who is to blame and what to do … Continue reading India, Pakistan, Kashmir..
I listened to the above on a podcast. To be frank it was a bit ho-hum. To non-brown listeners some of the stuff was surprising, but I had heard most of it elsewhere before, and Varsha Venkatasubramanian is not particularly heterodox, so her “UC Berkeley” affiliation immediately indicated a lot of her answers to the … Continue reading Was the nation-state inevitable?
Discussing the relationship between culture and crime scares most enormously. But does discussing it help improve human flourishing for people around the world? Please read the first article in this series hyperlinked at the bottom. Please also read these two very fine PDF reports on suspensions of students in the USA and California by race … Continue reading Is American culture sharply increasing crime? (a)
Disclaimer: As this post deals with an academic discussion on the Swastika symbol, I have included various images containing Swastika below. If you are repulsed by the symbol or do not like to look at it, please consider yourself warned. Also, for the same reason, this post is NSFW. Growing up in India, I had … Continue reading Whatâs in a name? That which we call a Swastika, isn’t exactly a symbol of hate
