Hindutva

Irom Chanu Sharmila- (Hindu) Terrorist?

Presenting Irom Sharmila as a lone Gandhian on hunger strike against AFSPA, the poster doubts Modi will repeal it because the Army holds a veto, and notes Hindus are not…

Brown Pundits Archive29 May 20140 comments
Great Expectations

Drawing on reporting about BJP voters, the poster argues India’s elites treat Hindutva shallowly while the poor are idealistic and politically aware, and hopes that the high expectations of Modi…

Brown Pundits Archive26 May 20140 comments
Feelings (fears) of a (expat) Coconut

The poster describes the mixed shame, anger and envy of non-Gujarati expat ‘Coconuts’ watching Modi’s India, contrasting them with Gujarati expats who celebrate, and quotes one such writer’s fears and…

Brown Pundits Archive25 May 20140 comments
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Mocking S Anand’s dense prose, the poster calls the upper-caste left unhinged by Modi’s win, asks for someone to defend his argument that neo-Hindus are dupes of the manuvadis, and…

Brown Pundits Archive24 May 20142 comments
History of modern India (without scare quotes)

Praising Chandrahas Choudhury’s precis of modern Indian history, the poster adds that majoritarianism stays a danger until minorities gain strength, notes Manipuris face harsh laws, and expects Bengal and Kerala…

Brown Pundits Archive20 May 20140 comments
Ummah firster vs. Dharma firster

Casting India’s contest as Ummah-firsters against Dharma-firsters, the poster says the former expect a lower caste-Muslim alliance to topple upper-caste rulers, and warns with the case of Jogendranath Mandal, who…

Brown Pundits Archive20 May 20140 comments
“Minarets are our bayonets”

Asks whether India is a break-out nation like Turkey and whether Modi resembles Erdoğan, then reproduces a polemic by Ruchir Sharma. The poster reads its fears as secularists’ alarm that…

Brown Pundits Archive18 May 20140 comments
Twitter for your thoughts

The poster argues that the Indian and Israeli far right differ from Europe’s: they want to be Westerners with a thin Hindu or Hebrew overlay, while local cultures fade. It…

Brown Pundits Archive18 May 20141 comment
For India has now become the Muslim Pakistan

The poster argues that Modi’s rise completes India’s transformation into a strident ‘Hindu Pakistan’, and that far-right leaders are tolerated so long as they are not Muslim or Christian. It…

Brown Pundits Archive18 May 20140 comments
Pankaj Mishra fires back at neo-Hindus

A joking introduction listing Pankaj Mishra’s likes and dislikes, followed by a very long reproduced article in which Mishra attacks the rise of the ‘neo-Hindus’ after the election.

Brown Pundits Archive16 May 20142 comments