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Why India will not lose her soul to missionaries
At midnight on Janmashtami a Sindhi mandir in Britain cut a birthday cake for baby Krishna. That is how a religion survives: it reads the room. The fear that India…
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Open Thread: Zardari in (self-imposed exile). New Provinces to be made
So the rumours of Bilawal’s marriage was instead a cover for the family to leave Pakistan. Pakistan apparently to have a referendum on new provinces regardless.
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Parsis, DNA and steppe incursions
Well, here is the long promised article. I’ve been meaning to write this for a year, with many disparate bits of data floating around from different subjects in a brain…
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Quick Review: Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam
This was an old review I wrote and is now lost in our archive somewhere, so I decided to repost. Shahab Ahmed tells us up front that he is not…
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Online Safety Protocol Activated
Kabir has emailed in stating categorically, that the toxicity is beginning to affect his health. The Admin team *must* take that seriously. Accordingly the online Safety Protocol has been reactivated.…
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Indus Water Treaty Arbitration
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FlyDie on South India
FlyDie left some excellent comments on the “Tamil” CMs post. I’m reposting them to increase the sabzi and reduce the masala. The Nayak inheritance. Why does so much of Tamil…
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Are All Postcolonial Nations Brahmanical Constructs?
Every postcolonial elite preserves the borders it inherited; the map, once drawn, acquires a priesthood. From the Nandas to the salariat, Radcliffe’s line to Cairo 1964; notes on caste, watersheds,…