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Wow some of them still exist in Pakistan as Hindu Dalits instead of converting yet to Islam and taking up identities as Muslims erasing their brutal past. When Bin Qasim first invaded Brahmanabad in Sindh, the lower castes were discriminated against very badly with rules like they had to...

Probably this has something to do with the demand of the type of meat most consumed in our respective countries... In India beef is the poor man's meat and hence banning beef will thus seriously affect the poor man who consumes it because of its low cost. :) there was always the Communist...

yes its cheap..that's why its beef...chicken is like 80rs! :D So did the French and Dutch "leave" Indo-China or Vietnam and Korea! Who the heck listens to Anu Malik :lol: Tahir is much better! And don't you worry I've seen some documentaries on how your Pakistani Muslim society is...

Is it too costly for you? I know it's in Indian Rupee :lol: Actually yes it is :undecided: not the sole reason though! Some scholars do say that you existence came about due to a British design to create a buffer zone between Central Asia and India, to keep India safe! Please acknowledge Abu...

Living in India I have the liberty of not discriminating against the LGBT community. For you I think you don't have a choice. So I won't even entertain your trolling with a sensible post regarding the sexual orientation of Gandhi. You are raised in such an environment where such hate mongering...

Um what did he do? :lol: What he did was proposed by the Hindu Mahasabha and Hindu upper caste Bhadrolok elites of Bengal when they found out that British reforms will let the provincial Muslim leaders get a majority in the provincial legislature of Bengal...and this happened much before...

Can't agree more though my definition of the "mainstream" will be what the ruling elite tries to impose on the rest of the society in order to legitimize its dominant position i.e. creating a hegemony. And for the last 60-70 years, given the dominant position Congress has attained, we living in...

Its actually ironic that economically poor lower class Muslims get targeted for eating beef when beef is actually very popular among the middle class Hindus and Muslims alike. Just google Mogul Garden restaurant Kolkata and open the Zomato review page. The restaurant is located in the Central...

I along with my friends (2 of them Brahmins by caste) ate beef kababs for Rs. 50 a plate yesterday from a very popular restaurant situated in the heart of my city , and guess what I'm still alive :big_boss:

No you don't. You'll then also loose your justification in the international arena to hold on to Kashmir by saying Pakistan does the same thing with Balochistan or other parts and Pakistan supporting jihadists in Kashmir will result in India supporting Baloch freedom struggle!! Let the threats...

I do agree to certain parts of your argument! :agree: Lets just agree to disagree!! :enjoy:

All thanks to Mustafa Kemal who abolished Abdulhamit II's (who is ironically in your display pic:woot:) frantic attempts to construct a so called "Caliphate" to save the dying and disintegrating Ottoman Empire. Pakistan sadly seems to be going in the opposite direction with masses attending...

Rahmat Ali who coined the term "Pakistan" was a nobody at the time when Lahore Resolution came to be framed. The British Press and Congress deliberately attached the term Pakistan to defame Jinnah to which Jinnah reacted bitterly, saying it's a joint conspiracy of the British and Hindus to...

No wonder this fellow always looks so angry For most Pakistanis the image may not be familiar, but this man was the mover of your famous Lahore Resolution or "Pakistan" Resolution (though the word "Pakistan" was nowhere to be found in it, after all the word "Pakistan" was a "gift from the...

Pakistan should exist to remind India what it is not :) In India we already have enough people who are shouting "Azadi Azadi". Now imagine what it would have been like if there was no Pakistan as an example of this "Azadi" that was granted way back in 1947, and the way it turned out now after...

I think such statements on the contrary are suggestive that problems exist regarding minorities in Pakistan. What is the need behind reassuring or pointing out that minorities are safe if there is no threat to their existence in the first place? Same holds true for India. What is the need to...

On both sides of the border, we think what the founding fathers of our nations wanted us to think, so that India and Pakistan can exist as sovereign nation states :) oh and God save the Queen!

Rationalism forms a very important part of the European post- Enlightenment ideals that came to define "Modernity" in later times (hegemonic "modernity" of the West). Its like how science has assumed such a sacrosanct position in our "modern" world just because it claims to be "rational". Always...

"Socialism" as defined by Marx and Engels? Or is this some other form of "Socialism"? How can you dub Islam as an "organized socialist movement" when there was no Marx or Engels present during those times who can define what "Socialism" is, nor was there an industrial society which were required...

If you define Islam within the Marxian paradigm as I had intended to do in the post, it automatically gets associated with power in this case that with the power of the "Oriental Despot" (Marx's own definition) who uses Islam in an instrumentalist way to mobilize support to sustain his rule. So...