Indo-Pakistani relations
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Pakistan and India. The Long View
After the cancelled National Security Adviser talks, the author steps back to set out the long view of the India-Pakistan conflict, starting from Kashmir, to look at the frightening big…
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Should Pakistan and India Play Cricket?
On renewed talk of cricket ties between India and Pakistan, the author sets out numbered thoughts, starting with extreme Hindutva and jihadi positions that allow no compromise, and asks where…
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Geopolitics
An all-weather friend
Responding to Pakistani complaints about jingoistic Indian media, the poster argues that unfinished business from Partition makes fair and balanced coverage unrealistic, and notes that Western press and Indian commentators…
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War-games on the border (shooting….but crying)
Citing Norman Finkelstein’s ‘shooting but crying’ phrase, the poster says it dislikes the shootings and beheadings on the Line of Control, and that civilians and soldiers on both sides are…
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Society
The good old days (Karachi 1986)
Presenting an account of Pakistani doctors’ kindness in Karachi in 1986, the post recalls a time when Shia doctors felt safe, and asks whether the bonding of ordinary South Asians…
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Geopolitics
“The sole survivor”
William Dalrymple’s account of the India-Pakistan shadow war in Afghanistan, opening with an Indian officer’s experience in Kabul, with the poster’s comment that the wars will end only when elites…
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Culture
Pakistan and India: divided by a common culture
A piece on how India and Pakistan are divided by a common culture, with the poster agreeing that ordinary people share much, though he doubts that Indian culture is rightly…
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Why Islam Haunts India
The poster shares photographed pages from Robert Kaplan’s chapter on India, ‘Why Islam Haunts India’, calling it a must-read on subcontinental geopolitics.
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Geopolitics
Is Pakistan the reason why India is not yet a Great Power?
Inspired by Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography, the author asks why India obsesses over Pakistan and Islam when Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are the real prize, and…
