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Where is Odette Yang
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Free Speech
X.T.M says free speech is inviolable on BP, that criticism of Pakistan or any country cannot be off-limits, and that a deleted thread cannot be restored.
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Book Review: Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan. Ikbal Shah and Idries Shah (of Sufis fame)
Omar Ali reviews Nile Green’s biography of Ikbal and Idries Shah, which presents the father and son as fantasists who invented aristocratic Sufi credentials. He accepts the case but notes…
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The Broken Compact
The author argues that the incremental Indian and American Dream, in which education and merit lead to mobility, has expired for a generation. He sees a new South Asian left…
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Zohran Mamdani open thread
Open thread on Zohran Mamdani’s election victory, which the author calls a huge deal, bigger than Sadiq Khan’s; readers are asked to post links, including an Urdu pop song about…
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Islam the Religion of Peace part ii
Short post reproducing a news report of a rail worker seriously injured while shielding passengers from a knife attacker on a Doncaster to London train, with a line noting the…
