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...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Comment on an Asia Society discussion on Partition

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A good discussion on Partition between Fareed Zakaria, Husain Haqqani and Nisid Hajari at the Asia Society can be found here: http://a...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Emperor Akbar's minister Abu'l Fazl on why he chose to write on Hinduism

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I recently went looking for something in ' Ain-i-Akbari ' , a record of Emperor Akbar's reign from 1556-1605 AD,  written by ...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Connecting the dots: Pakistan's jihad policy, conflict-driven economy and hostage-taking

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The Pakistan Army does not intend to end its jihad policies. Rather, it runs an international protection racket with jihadis as enforcers ...