Refugees
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Sunny Narang in Conversation with Dr. Omar Ali.
A BrownCast in which Sunny Narang, a Punjabi raised in Delhi with ancestral roots in Pakistan, talks to Dr Ali about post-partition Punjabis in Delhi and those who shaped the…
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30 days? That’s an excuse to run consulate shredders — Kabul’s government won’t last the week
As the Taliban box in Kabul, the author argues that US intelligence timelines were absurd, that the fall of northern cities has ended illusions of an orderly withdrawal, and that…
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The CAB Battle – Who Is An Indian (Citizen)?
The author defends the Citizenship Amendment Bill as relief for persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, arguing that foreign coverage omits the context of Partition and the Two-Nation Theory.…
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Live blogging – Rethinking Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Live notes from a Cambridge lecture rethinking the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The speaker argues it was a seminal Cold War moment, that Afghanistan has been made and unmade repeatedly,…
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Does Bangladesh need to do more to “assert” itself?
Sharing a report on Assam’s citizenship register, which he finds disgusting, the author worries Bangladesh is developing a ‘Wakanda’ attitude to its neighbourhood, asks how Bangladeshis view India, the Rohingya…
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Do Muslim refugees have a right to Australia?
X.T.M argues Australia is entitled to protect its borders, that Muslim refugees should be hosted by neighbouring countries and the wider Ummah, and that the West should not intervene as…
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“When she awoke, her brother was gone”
A comment, with a long Associated Press extract, on two child refugees separated from their parents at sea; the poster asks when the history of children displaced by the partitions…
