Wednesday, August 06, 2025

The real Two Nation Theory

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Indians and Pakistanis often find themselves talking to each other at cross purposes.  One reason is that their respective national conversa...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Pakistan, Taliban and the double edged sword of Islam

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  When religion enters politics, individual believers hope that their personal beliefs are reflected in the public sphere. When religion e...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Leftist Indian history presents a dead end of misrepresentations for secular practising Hindus.

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Recently, I came across this very illuminating article from 1994, by Dharma Kumar, ' Left Secularists and Communalism '. It is on th...
Monday, January 04, 2021

Aurangzeb, The Man and the Myth, Audrey Truschke, Book Review-Part 3

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 (continued from Part 2 )  3. A third set of problems - failure of contextualization A significant portion of Ms. Truschke's contextuali...
Sunday, January 03, 2021

Aurangzeb, The Man and the Myth, Audrey Truschke, Book Review-Part 2

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(continued from Part 1 ) 2. The problem of citing selective facts. Audrey Truschke, in a number of instances, omits mentioning facts salient...

Aurangzeb, The Man and the Myth, Audrey Truschke, Book Review - Part 1

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This book and its author have been in the news for a few years.     Ms. Truschke's primary aim in this book appears to be to absolve Aur...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

On being mentioned in a Pakistani newspaper

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A response to this column had slipped my mind till now. It is unexpected to see one's name mentioned in a newspaper, and by someone I...
Friday, March 11, 2016

On being called an Islamophobe

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On twitter, someone tweeted in response to current Taliban infighting, "From 1990-1994/5, we remember intense infighting when the M...