Here is my take on the significance of South Asian aDNA from Eastern Iran and Central Asia during the Bronze Age – The Chalcolithic contacts between South Asia and regions immediately to its East & North i.e. Eastern Iranian cultures such as Jiroft or Halil Rud (from sites such as Jiroft & Konar Sandal) & … Continue reading The Roots of Indo-Iranian cultural genesis
Pakistan heads to the polls on July 25th. I happen to be in the middle of a move, so I have not been posting much but a short note on the election is certainly due. Back in 2013 Pakistan had its first peaceful democratic transfer of power and it looked like some sort of democracy … Continue reading Pakistan Elections 2018
From Dr Hamid Hussain Controversy about judiciary is seen as a novel phenomenon in Pakistan. Found this piece from the vault written in 2007. It is long but provides context of current status. There is a coming ‘food fight’ among senior judges. A sitting senior judge has leveled the accusation that court benches are formed … Continue reading Judicial Jitters in Pakistan. A look back..
From Dr Hamid Hussain While browsing through some old material, found an old piece written in 2003 when General Pervez Mussharraf had just completed the political engineering project. It is lengthy and indulges in some theories but gives some context to what is happening now. While pondering over it, I found words of Amjad Islam … Continue reading Forbidden Fruit: Military and Politics in Pakistan (and beyond)
India is ranked 136 (behind many tinpot dictatorships with no freedom of speech or freedom of press) by Reporters without Borders in the World Press Freedom Index. US is ranked 43 (behind many countries with little freedom of press.) This is a post modernist hatchet job. The real criteria of ranking is how post modernist a country is … Continue reading Post Modernist attack against muslims, darkies, India, America and the world
Multi nationals are the same all over the world, exploitative. 10 persons were shot dead when police opened fire on a rally against a Sterlite copper plant. As anger and resentment against Tuesday’s police action continued to smoulder, the Tamil Nadu government ordered several measures to control the unrest. Internet services were suspended in Thoothukudi … Continue reading 11 dead in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) Protests
I am excerpting an article from my personal blog. I originally wrote this essay in May 2009 and it was published on The South Asian Idea. It’s interesting to me how long I have been thinking about some of the same issues. I have always been fascinated by the Raj. In fact, in my Directing … Continue reading Indian Ink: Literary Insights into Colonialism and Identity
Please read this article in full: Each of us has enabled the men who raped Asifa. I am tired of the posts on social media about being “heart-broken.” I no longer even feel the space in my chest where my heart should be. I am angry, and my anger is at aimed at you. I … Continue reading Male Misogyny
Stephen Kotkin is a historian who has written several outstanding books on Russian history and is now in the process of distilling his lifetime work into a monumental three part biography of Stalin. Volume 1 dealt with Stalin’s early life and his progress from relatively peripheral disciple of Lenin in 1917 to Lenin’s handpicked general … Continue reading Review: Stalin, waiting for Hitler..
Honestly, I can’t figure it out why UK nonmuslims treat UK muslims so badly. Nonmuslims in general treat muslims badly and I am tempted to write similar articles about most nonmuslim majority countries; but this article will focus on the UK. This article is a sequel to these two previous articles on nonmuslims mistreating muslims … Continue reading Why do English nonmuslims treat English muslims so badly?
