Arundhati Roy
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The Indian cultural Left is in India, but not of India
Razib Khan argues that Arundhati Roy should be understood as part of a global English-speaking cultural Left, not as typical of India or the Islamic world, where Left politics persists…
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Arundhati Roy on Kashmir; Pakistan is simply another Bantustan
A quick note on Arundhati Roy’s piece arguing that Modi’s Balakot airstrike internationalised the Kashmir dispute, with an excerpt and the poster’s surprise that the Pulwama bomber was a Kashmiri.
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Why doesn’t Arundhati Roy move to Pakistan?
The author asks why Arundhati Roy, so eloquent on India’s caste hierarchy, says nothing about Pakistan’s treatment of its minorities. His short answer is that Indians have privilege and Pakistanis…
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An Unfair Comparison: Modi and Liaqat Ali Khan
Objecting to a tweet comparing Narendra Modi with Hafiz Saeed, the author argues that Hindu nationalists want what Liaquat Ali Khan and Jinnah demanded and got: a state privileging one…
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The education of the people of Tianzhu
Noting Shakespeare in India’s ruling decriminalising homosexuality, the author argues the English-speaking Indian elite remains oriented to the West even as China overtakes Britain in trade, and urges Indians to…
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The Problem with Mishra and Roy
Omar Ali argues that Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy and Tariq Ali are overrated as voices of India’s left, and that their mix of Marxism, postcolonial theory and environmentalism wastes the…
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The Yellow River turns Red
Recalling the 1938 breaching of Yellow River levees that killed 800,000, the poster argues Mao’s atrocities are only now being appreciated and that much of the academic left, with Arundhati…
