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Still bearing "fruit":

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 06:08:10 +0000

Still bearing "fruit":

#Kashmir Demonstration in BRADFORD, ENGLAND this afternoon. The parents in this interview are setting a very bad example to their kids. So much anger and hate pic.twitter.com/K2cDYw9Zen
— stephen (@LFC_blano) August 26, 2019

Glad to see more critical

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:57:59 +0000

In reply to Peak Delhi pic.twitter.com

Glad to see more critical coverage of the Gulf’s shameful embrace of Modi. My comments included, and originally detailed: https://t.co/XMsVLDlep7 https://t.co/mnhTxsEzRg via ⁦@nytimes⁩
— Samah Hadid (@samahhadid) August 27, 2019

"What 4 generatjons of

NCD — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:23:38 +0000

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"What 4 generatjons of British and Indians labored to unite, Montbatten destroyed in 6 months"

Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India, Oxford Press, 2006

"Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century.

Wolpert places the blame for the catastrophe largely on Mountbatten, the flamboyant cousin of the king, who rushed the process of nationhood along at an absurd pace. The viceroy's worst blunder was the impetuous drawing of new border lines through the middle of Punjab and Bengal. Virtually everyone involved advised Mountbatten that to partition those provinces was a calamitous mistake that would unleash uncontrollable "violence.

A crackdown in India on

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:05:45 +0000

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A crackdown in India on suspected illegal immigrants could leave millions stateless

More than 30 million people in Assam have undergone a citizenship test that has proved impossible for many to navigate, particularly the poor and uneducated, human rights groups say.

by Niha Masih @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 26

GUWAHATI, India — In less than a week, millions of people in India will find out whether they remain citizens of the country, with the culmination of a byzantine process that critics say could be the world’s largest exercise in forced statelessness.

Over the past four years, a state in northeastern India has subjected its 31 million residents to an exacting citizenship test aimed at identifying immigrants in the country illegally, primarily from neighboring Bangladesh. People had to produce ancestral documents dating back decades and prove links to their parents.

No one knows what will happen to the millions who are left off the final list, known as the National Register of Citizens, which is expected to be published on Saturday. It is known that authorities are setting up detention centers and tribunals, sparking fears of arrest, incarceration or deportation. Families worry about being separated or becoming disenfranchised, unable to vote or access public service [....]

Here's a charming story about

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 03:44:35 +0000

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Here's a charming story about marrying outside of tribe in today's India:

A young Indian couple married for love. Then the bride’s father hired assassins.

India is changing — but not fast enough for couples like Pranay Perumalla and Amrutha Varshini, whose marriage defied the caste system, an age-old social order that is still pervasive.

By Joanna Slater @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 18,complete with wedding video and other pix

MIRYALAGUDA, India — They were young, glamorous and dreamily in love [....]

Peak Delhi pic.twitter.com

artappraiser — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:08:00 +0000

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Peak Delhi pic.twitter.com/Bq4rx3lVxL
— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) August 19, 2019

earlier:

Some thoughts from me for @spectator on the Kashmir news and the possible motives behind it https://t.co/MzPCtMTgy7
— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) August 5, 2019