Archives for the 'india' Category
Slumdog
Published on 7 Mar 2009 at 11:57 pm.
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Filed under india.
Turns out “Slumdog Millionaire” is the middle-aged suburban date night hit of the season. Theater packed. They liked it, applauded, which I never really get when no one who had anything to do with the flick is within earshot. Great flick, great device to tell the kid’s story, great Indian misery/magnificence depictions, nothing in there that [...]
Mumbling
Published on 19 Feb 2009 at 8:43 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Islam, india.
Incoherently in Mumbai, it’s Thomas Friedman, with the interesting news that no Indian Muslim cemetery will take the Mumbai terrorist bodies, and the clueless suggestion that what happens in India can influence the rest of the Muslim world.
Kill A Chicken, Scare A Monkey
Published on 4 Feb 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, india, terrorists.
And other bestial allusions as India warns Obama to back off on Kashmir. Financial Times:
Read ‘Kill A Chicken, Scare A Monkey’
Slumdog Millionaire
Published on 16 Jan 2009 at 11:09 am.
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The title is inspired, if you know anything about India, because everything about the subcontinent is a wedding of unimagineable extremes, and in the broadest of terms, it pretty well describes the nation that is just beginning to explode on the world stage, the wings of which it has been lurking in for centuries.
The Obama Doctrine
Published on 2 Dec 2008 at 7:53 am.
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Filed under Bush, Obama, Pakistan, india.
Obama says India can whack Paks, if that’s where the investigation goes.* Sovereign nations and all. That’s how the Times of India is reading it:
Pak It Up
Published on 30 Nov 2008 at 9:02 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, Pakistan, india.
Today’s South Asian reader starts with a captured Pak terrorist’s alleged confession that he’s Lashkar-e-Taiba. ISI chief’s Delhi visit off. Pak troops could move to India’s border. Pak pres, after tense meeting with Pak military, promises action on and and all Mumbai plotters. All of which either bodes very ill for India-Pak relations, or means Pakistan will [...]
Something Different
Published on 28 Nov 2008 at 8:29 pm.
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Filed under Jihad, india.
Roggio, Long War Journal, with a long examination of how the Mumbai attacks differed from past terrorism attacks: military-style assaults on multiple targets led to three days of fighting:
Global Jihad
Published on 28 Nov 2008 at 8:51 am.
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Filed under Jihad, Pakistan, india.
On the ropes, seeks to re-assert itself, pokes at one of the softer spots of the world’s not-so-united front against terrorism. The South Asian Cold War. Roundup:
Village Justice
Published on 17 Oct 2008 at 7:10 pm.
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Filed under crime, india, punishment.
It’s harsh. Sickle-wielding Indian woman beheads alleged stalker, parades through village with severed head. Daily Mail:
Oh Baby
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:03 pm.
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Delivery on track as a premature Indian baby enters the world through the toilet of a moving train. Found alive on the railbed two hours later, apparently unhurt. Telegraph:
Asian Games
Published on 26 Feb 2007 at 10:42 am.
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Filed under China, india.
Historynet’s Judith Klinghoffer, Indiablogging, rounds up recent tension-boosters in and around the neighborhood and gets a bad 1914 feel off it.
India Rearview Mirror
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 9:14 am.
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Judith Klinghoffer, Indiablogging, posts on the anti-Americanism and Soviet nostalgia of India’s elite … which seems awfully shortsighted to me for a country already under attack by Muslim extremists from within and without.
Muslims vs. Muslims = Someone Else’s Fault
Published on 8 Feb 2007 at 9:33 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Islam, india.
History News Network’s Judith Klinghoffer, now observing events in India, picks up a story line there that’s becoming all too familiar: Muslims killing Muslims to make Muslims angry at non-Muslims.
