Indo-Pakistani relations
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India’s Wealth will not turn Pakistan into East Germany
X.T.M answers a commenter’s per-capita point: scale and per-capita income measure different things, and India’s size gives it weight. But economic weight is not destiny, India has not turned Pakistan…
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Bin Qasim’s Thousand-Year Wound
X.T.M argues that India and Pakistan face a fault line over a thousand years old, dating to Muhammad bin Qasim’s landing in Sindh in 711. Each side now speaks only…
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When Brownz don’t stand together; the Coloniser wins
After a World Cup without a South Asian finalist, the author argues that India’s wish to be ‘Western’ and its fixation on Pakistan hurt the subcontinent, and that peace needs…
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Does the nuclear arsenal “protect” Pakistan?
Zach poses questions rather than opinions: what India would have done had Pakistan not been nuclear, how strong India’s conventional forces are, whether China would intervene, and whether other states…
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Trevor Noah disses India?
Zach comments on Trevor Noah’s joke on the India-Pakistan standoff, agreeing with Omar’s analysis but not his conclusion. He argues the joke elevated Pakistan, a bankrupt state, to equal footing…
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India and Pakistan; the Fog of War
An account of the 14 February 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing, claimed by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, and the escalation that followed. It sets out Masood Azhar’s history and the background to…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 18: India and Pakistan; Confrontation in the Subcontinent
Razib and Omar talk to Major Amin and Dr Hamid Hussain about the India-Pakistan confrontation after the Pulwama attack and what comes next, covering its military and political aspects. A…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 17: India-Pakistan conflict, Hindu nationalism, Cosmopolitanism
The hosts talk to Amey, a third-culture Indo-British-American professional, about the India-Pakistan border clashes (about 35 per cent of the conversation), Hindu nationalism, Maratha nationalism, knitting and racism, and the…
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India needs to learn how to deal with Zombistan.
Zach calls Pakistan a zombie nation animated by a virus he identifies with Islam, saying India must cure the virus rather than fight the zombie, and feels absolute separation may…
