secularism

Secularism (no exceptions please)

Using the killing of three Sikhs in Saharanpur, the poster challenges Mukul Kesavan’s distinction that Congress kills from opportunity and the BJP from ideology, asking whether victims feel better about…

Brown Pundits Archive1 August 20140 comments
“Crossing the river by feeling the stones”

The poster relays Jyoti Rahman’s case that Ziaur Rahman is the true father of modern Bangladesh, whose social-justice policies explain its relative advances, and suggests Pakistan look east for inspiration,…

Brown Pundits Archive29 July 20140 comments
Ramayana, Mahabharata true accounts, not myths

Responding to a claim that the Ramayana and Mahabharata are true accounts, the poster argues that left-liberal historians have a tiny secular fan base, because conservative Muslims, Sikhs and Dalits…

Brown Pundits Archive12 July 20140 comments
‘My mother was wronged, gravely wronged’

Reading A. K. Antony’s remark that the Congress is seen as favouring minorities, the post argues the party is courting conservative Muslims in Kerala, which risks pushing Hindus towards the…

Brown Pundits Archive28 June 20140 comments
From Buddha’s 3 Gems to Allah’s Universal Sovereignty: South Asian Preambles

Comparing the preambles of South Asian constitutions, from a Buddhist invocation to Allah’s sovereignty in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the post argues a preamble shows the ideals and founding myths a…

Brown Pundits Archive17 June 20140 comments
India or Pakistan?

The post argues India is now a Hindu democracy in all but name, expects the BJP government to end minority-targeted affirmative action and curb conversion, and compares this with ethnic…

Brown Pundits Archive15 June 20140 comments
RSS Led by Modi in Charge of India, Part I: Let It Sink In

First in a series on the Modi government, the post calls the BJP’s single-party majority the worst nightmare of India’s ‘pseudo-secularists’, arguing the party no longer needs regional allies and…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20140 comments
Arun vs. Arundhati

Introduces and reproduces a column by Thalekkara Arun, described as a pragmatic leftist, who argues that Congress’s minority politics alienated both minorities and the majority, and that liberals should stay…

Brown Pundits Archive18 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
Couple of thoughts.

Three short thoughts: Chetan Bhagat’s argument that separate laws for Kashmir and Muslims underpin Indian secularism, the BJP’s win mirroring the PML-N’s in Pakistan, and a personal aside about sleep…

Brown Pundits Archive17 May 20141 comment