Omar Ali

2 months ago | brownpundits.com | Omar Ali

Preface: I am not wading into the most important dispute in the galaxy. These are not recommendations or desires, just an attempt to see what the possibilities are. So as everyone knows by now, Trump and Bibi had a press conference. Here it is. Trump announced that the US now intends to take over Gaza, clean it out and rebuild it “nice”.

Oct 29, 2024 | brownpundits.com | Omar Ali

The US national election is a week away. It is likely that there are near-zero undecided folks left now, but the race is close, so no one will know for sure until the (inefficient) American electoral system counts the votes. And of course, given his past shenanigans, it is very likely that Trump at least will not easily accept a defeat and this time, the establishment may resist as well.

Jun 21, 2024 | brownpundits.com | Omar Ali

There is an old post about blasphemy laws from 2015 that i revised in 2021. It is on the site, but not well written and hard to search for, so i decided to repost it because blasphemy is in the news again and I cannot count the number of times someone has managed to say “colonial era blasphemy laws in Pakistan” in a misleading manner.

Jun 8, 2024 | brownpundits.com | Omar Ali

Another Browncast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above!In this podcast we gathered together a band of brownpundits (Mukunda Raghavan, Srikanth Krishnamachary, Maneesh Taneja, Gaurav Lele, KJ and myself) and talked about the Indian elections in details.

Apr 23, 2024 | brownpundits.com | Omar Ali

This was an old article i wrote for the Indian magazine Pragati in 2013. That magazine has since disappeared, but some good Samaritan found this on the intertubes and I thought I would post it here for posterity. Some elements of my thinking have changed since then, and others have shifted in intensity, but i am posting this article as originally written;Salman Rushdie famously said that Pakistan was “insufficiently imagined”.