asabiyyah
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Indians assimilate a bit too well?
Remarks that two very different Indian-Americans are in a public fight, and wonders whether Indians have little asabiyyah, assimilating too well.
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Jatitva: When Caste Becomes a Cancer
The author argues that caste politics is the most corrosive element in Indian democracy today and coins ‘Jatitva’ for the idea that the state should serve one’s caste, a counterpart…
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Hinduism will die, and Hinduism will live
Razib Khan answers Hindus who lament their religion’s weakness, arguing that 1.2 billion adherents and great internal variation make extinction implausible, that jati-varna’s flexibility helped Hinduism survive Islam, and that…
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Hindutva, Asabiya and Apostacy
The author questions comparisons between Hindutva anger over beef-eating and Islamic takfir, arguing that Brahmanical orthodoxy mostly policed ritual purity rather than politics, but that apostasy-style memes could arise within…
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Chandrayaan 2; if at first you don’t succeed..
The author argues that Chandrayaan 2’s lander failure was unsurprising given how hard autonomous lunar landing is, and that after heavy national hype the setback may still feed soft power,…
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Saving the Incompetent Sharif Brothers and this Rapacious Unfair System
Argues that building a working democracy in an ex-colonial country takes far more skill than running a functional government, and that undermining the system, even to remove incompetent leaders like…
