Hindu-Muslim relations

(USA-Indus) man to (Mango-Ganga) man (and back)

Replying point by point to a letter from Amad Shaikh, the poster says nuclear parity stabilises India-Pakistan tensions, insists minority mistreatment cannot be set aside, and argues Godhra and Gujarat…

Brown Pundits Archive22 May 20140 comments
“Prime minister of people of all faiths”

Reading British advice that Modi should drop religious talk for economics, the poster is cautiously hopeful but doubtful. It argues divide and rule worked because Indians were already divided, and…

Brown Pundits Archive19 May 20140 comments
Voice of the Hindus

The poster defends Three Idiots against Pankaj Mishra’s dislike of Chetan Bhagat, then reproduces Bhagat’s column listing dos and don’ts for Hindus as results approach, including that Hindus should not…

Brown Pundits Archive16 May 20141 comment
You hate us, we hate you back

The poster argues that Kashmir and Bangladesh are where the two-nation theory will keep causing misery. It sees Kashmir as lost to India yet unreconciled, with at most a soft…

Brown Pundits Archive5 May 20140 comments
A (muslim) man walks into a (hindu) barber-shop

The poster recommends a short film by Shlok Sharma and argues that South Asians should confront divisions of caste, religion and language openly, warning that exploiting identity markers backfires on…

Brown Pundits Archive1 May 20140 comments
Flat out prejudice

A story of Captain Zainul Abidin Juvale, who steered 722 Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Iraqi invasion, with the poster urging communities to see poverty and illiteracy, not each…

Brown Pundits Archive28 February 20141 comment
Jab We Met: Encounters between Islam and Hinduism in Early-Medieval Punjab

Prompted by a bilingual Ghaznavid dirham in his collection, the author argues that Pakistanis forget the layers of history beneath them and examines the first extended encounters between Islam and…

Brown Pundits Archive27 February 20142 comments

Hindu-Muslim relations

(USA-Indus) man to (Mango-Ganga) man (and back)

“Prime minister of people of all faiths”

Voice of the Hindus

You hate us, we hate you back

A (muslim) man walks into a (hindu) barber-shop

Flat out prejudice

Jab We Met: Encounters between Islam and Hinduism in Early-Medieval Punjab