Amit

If a man is horny and doesn’t have a wife, a sex-slave, a boy, or a hollowed-out watermelon (in that order, mind you) on hand, he should fuck an idol. That’s the depth of their depravity. But there’s more... If he must do it in Ramadan, he can use his hands. Or his wife’s. “And if he has a female slave who is a child or young girl, he masturbates with her hand, and likewise the disbelieving [slave girl], and it is permissible to enjoy her without vaginal intercourse.” Yes, age no bar. That’s the Hanbali jurist Ibn al-Qayyim in the 14th century. Highly revered by the Salafis and also held in high esteem by the Sunnis at large. So the next time you see someone with a watermelon emoji, know exactly what they are. By the way, the work is called Badai’ al-Fawa’id.

I don’t think people realize how affordable Teslas have gotten. A new Model Y is $530/month. (72 months)

The women of India and Pakistan need to deploy our ingrained common sense and suggest ways forward in our relationship. We need a women’s caucus. Not to throw accusations against each other but to think calmly and sensibly about the future ahead. For the sake of our children. We need to bring in the counterpoint: without naming it, without sounding defensive, but making it impossible to dismiss. For decades, India–Pakistan engagement has been trapped in a single script: territory, terror, recrimination. We repeat it with ritual precision, but it yields diminishing returns. What if we widened the frame? In West Asia, especially the Gulf, our interests often run in parallel: energy security, diaspora welfare, maritime stability, crisis response. These are not abstractions since they affect millions of lives and the resilience of both economies. Engaging here need not dilute our positions, create false parity, or reopen familiar disputes. It can remain tightly bounded, issue-specific, and without prejudice to core differences. Skeptics will argue that Pakistan cannot compartmentalise, that any engagement risks being instrumentalised, and that peripheral cooperation has never altered core hostility. But the purpose here is not transformation, it is insulation. Not to resolve the conflict by other means, but to prevent it from defining all means. Some may also say Pakistan has found a “role” in the Iran crisis and India should not be seen as seeking one. But this is not about visibility or mediation. Our interests are structural not transitory. If anything, the moment underscores a larger truth: even adversarial states operate beyond their disputes when interests demand it. When the central track is blocked, responsible statecraft does not stand still. It explores parallel ones, carefully, deliberately, and on its own terms. Sometimes, widening the field is not weakness. It is strategy. The women must speak.

Healthcare in India is becoming a money making machine. A friend’s grandmother is in ICU for the last 4 days. Daily medicine cost alone is around 40–50K. He is not allowed inside ICU. He cannot see the treatment. He cannot see which medicines are actually being used. He can only stand outside and keep paying. Medicines go from pharmacy to ICU. Families don’t know what is used, what is not. Maybe some goes back from the back door. But there is no transparency. Only bills. Private hospitals know families won’t argue when their loved one is in ICU. This is not just treatment. For many families, this is financial destruction in the name of healthcare.

Dear Jason Kenny, most Indians will today tell you: India no longer cares about what the hypocritical and double faced west thinks about it or its relationships with other world powers. Stop supporting Khalistanis, separatists, terrorists, and terrorist states like Pakistan first before preaching to India. Unlike the west, Russia has been a trusted friend of India. And doesn't lecture India patronizingly on who it has ties with, whom it buys arms or energy from.