free speech
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The Long Defeat: How Hinduphobia Hollowed Out Pakistan
X.T.M reads a Dawn article’s misspelling and ordering of religions as evidence of Hinduphobia in Pakistani discourse, which he describes as erasure rather than violence, and explains his new policy…
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🧵 Open Thread: Hate Speech, Travel Notes, and Diplomatic Surprises
Open thread. X.T.M says a comment glorifying Partition violence crossed the line and that the commenter must retract and apologise before posting again, and notes his travels and Pakistan’s diplomacy…
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Visibility, Voice, and the Indian Muslim Dilemma
X.T.M reads the prominence of Muslim families in BBC coverage of the Ahmedabad plane crash as showing three things: selective visibility, Indian Muslim emigration, and a surprising willingness to speak…
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Proud of Rho Khanna
Razib Khan answers Ann Coulter’s claim that Indians lack the American attitude to free speech by praising Ro Khanna as the one Democrat persistently concerned about Twitter’s suppression of the…
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Academic freedom, Hinduism, and the end of the age
Razib Khan calls a news report on US scholars of South Asia under pressure from Hindu nationalist groups a mishmash that dwells on sensational activists. He accepts many are illiberal…
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Political correctness is “just politeness” (for your friends)
Reacting to Rutgers’ defence of academic freedom for Audrey Truschke amid clashes with Hindu Twitter, the author argues the American left does not extend politeness to Hindus, and that universities…
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Putting the Arnab storm in perspective
The author argues the optics and high-handedness of Arnab Goswami’s arrest deserve criticism, but that arbitrary arrests such as Sameer Thakkar’s over tweets are more troubling, and that Goswami’s arrest…
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Troubles and politics of the billionaire author
Nachiketa, a Rowling fan, argues the outrage over Troubled Blood was driven largely by people who had not read it, and reads the 888-page novel himself before judging both the…
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The counterproductive (il)liberalism
Nachiketa argues that Indian liberal media weaken their case through polemic such as calling Yogi Adityanath ‘Ajay Bisht’, and that Bloomsbury’s de-platforming of the Delhi Riots 2020 book turned a…
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Why the Far Left Is More Dangerous Than the Far Right
A brown Democrat argues that the far left poses a greater danger to America than the far right, citing survey charts and drawing parallels with the Indian left, while stressing…
