Remember that article about how the British killed millions after 1857, for example hanging them from trees? [Or the tree still “under arrest” in Pakistan?] Here’s one village still suffering the consequences of standing up to Angrez Sarkar. Still, under one of the variants of The New Raj:

Photograph of Sufi saint, Waris Ali Shah.jpg Usage: {{di-orphaned non-free use|date=10 September 2023|replacement=replacement image}} For non-replaced images…en.wikipedia.org The first page or three of the book below by a Pakistani-American doctor introduces the Sufi influence of Waris Ali Shah, the patron saint of much of the Lucknow area and specifically Barabanki district, where my father’s folks spent a good part of the last millenium. The picture you see…

Well, technically, the constitution already recognizes about three names, no? I like that approach. To be fair, so far, what the current government/president is doing is switching to one of the other available options. As people pointed out, the Indian passport already carry both names — though it uses India…

You might have seen the brouhaha about India changing call signs to “Bharat” and some Pakistanis, half tongue-in-cheek, saying they would like to take on the mantle of India, if La Republic next door lets go of it. …

جشن نوروز 🎊🥳 Khurram Latifi Official | By Manzoor Baltistani | Facebook جشن نوروز 🎊🥳 Khurram Latifi Officialwww.facebook.com Beautiful song for Nawruz in Urdu. Incorporating one of my father’s (Allah Yarhamk) favorite Farsi expressions. Chashm-e-mah raushan dil-e-mah shad, yaara! #MemoriesOfAnAwadhiDad

MQM-P stages first 'power show' after unification KARACHI: More than two months after its unification, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Saturday staged a 'power…www.dawn.com Good rhetoric. Two questions stand: Will this reunited band will be able to stand, and have the integrity to stand, for its principles and not be co-opted by the Establishment — what so often, almost invariably, took the form of being foced into what Saleem Safi Saahab calls “ittehad bil jabr”, or forced coalitions.

A thread of slogans from London. The first one is startling, but not new outside The Punjab:

ChatGPT efficiently collects and delivers the sum of human knowledge. And does an amazing job of it A lot of our biggest problems have known solutions. What we lack is the right priorities and…how did ChatGPT put it? long-term commitment. So will we use this new technology better than all the previous ones? Ironically, used right, this could might maybe means that we could might maybe can get rid of the mass of “very smart people” [like you get from everyone’s new favorite college 😏] and keep the ones that have the vision to ask the right questions and lead the implementation.

I have become a fan of The Caspian Report and their … well, the cool kids would call them “explainers”, no? Here’s their take on #India’s “other” (from the point of view of a Pakistani-American), some might say main, foreign policy focus as a rising power: