Salvatore Babones
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Meaningful reform of the Congress Party has been pushed back for a decade or more
Salvatore Babones
513 views • 2 days ago
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"Modi & India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat" by Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya - my review
Salvatore Babones
911 views • 2 months ago
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My review of "The Great Hindu Civilization" by Pavan K. Varma
Salvatore Babones
543 views • 2 months ago
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India's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Administratively necessary but politically inappropriate
Salvatore Babones
644 views • 2 months ago
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Vikas Pathak's Contesting Nationalisms - the kind of honest engagement with history that India needs
Salvatore Babones
352 views • 3 months ago
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My 2024 election advice for Shri Narendra Modi and the BJP: conduct a CASTE CENSUS
Salvatore Babones
1.6K views • 7 months ago
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The Voice, Explained
Salvatore Babones
943 views • 7 months ago
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India's America problem
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2.2K views • 11 months ago
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Review of Dharmic Nation: Freeing Bharat, Remaking India by R Jagannathan: it's a nifty little book.
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803 views • 11 months ago
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Senso-ji temple and Asakusa shrine, Tokyo
Salvatore Babones
152 views • 1 year ago
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Kurobe Gorge Scenic Mountain Railway
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151 views • 1 year ago
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Keyakidaira Onsen, Kurobe Gorge, Japan
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108 views • 1 year ago
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Yudanaka snow monkey park, Japan
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250 views • 1 year ago
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Shinto (?) shrine in Shibu, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
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174 views • 1 year ago
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"Journalists are only about 1/5 as likely to be killed in India as the general population."
Salvatore Babones
328 views • 1 year ago
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"Our knowledge of India in the West comes from half a dozen elite Indian intellectuals."
Salvatore Babones
781 views • 1 year ago
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The #Manipur violence sadly illustrates how liberal democracy plays out in different contexts.
Salvatore Babones
486 views • 1 year ago
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"The roots of Western civilization are to be found in India, and in the Bhagavad Gita"
Salvatore Babones
1.2K views • 1 year ago
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My advice for India's regional parties? Dump Congress, and build a 1 state 1 party federation. #MIGA
Salvatore Babones
550 views • 1 year ago
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Why can't indigenous Australians vote for their own Voice to parliament? #VoiceToParliament
Salvatore Babones
3.3K views • 1 year ago
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Snakes in the Ganga - watch my brief review of the book by Dr. Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan
Salvatore Babones
2.6K views • 1 year ago
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Inside the V-Dem rankings
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598 views • 1 year ago
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FM2000 interview with Yateender Gupta - China, Hindu-Muslim relations, and of course ... #Pathaan!
Salvatore Babones
807 views • 1 year ago
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The supposed threat of majoritarianism is an intellectual shibboleth that dates back to Aristotle
Salvatore Babones
935 views • 1 year ago
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ಸಿಡ್ನಿಯಿಂದ ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು! (Happy new year from Sydney!)
Salvatore Babones
449 views • 1 year ago
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An informal holiday update on the Newslaundry situation
Salvatore Babones
2.6K views • 1 year ago
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My (brief) review of Prof. Gautam Desiraju's new book, Bharat: India 2.0
Salvatore Babones
1.5K views • 1 year ago
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For human rights, people are lucky to have been born in India instead of in the rest of the world.
Salvatore Babones
2.4K views • 1 year ago
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Mr. Xi, tear down your wall! (rerecording) #InternationalHumanRightsDay, Fed. for a Democratic China
Salvatore Babones
566 views • 1 year ago
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Why it's so difficult to create an objective democracy ranking: the data just aren't there
Salvatore Babones
640 views • 1 year ago
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