omar ali Profile picture
Jan 23, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read Read on X
An interesting tidbit about the difference in honor culture between gorkhas and plains Indians (from general mitha's memoirs)
Working with Americans.. (these were special forces officers setting up the ssg for Pakistan)
Visiting Fort Bragg.. And anti Jewish prejudice in the American army
General mitha's opinion of Yahya khan
General hamid "keeping an eye on the qadianis"
Baloch regiment recruits eating 8-12 chapati a day for the first 3 weeks.. Bcz first time they got to eat all they wanted in their life
Yahya khan misbehaves, and apologizes, comilla 1964
Middle class bengali nationalism, a little anecdote
Meeting the great akhtar hamid khan, who later started the orangi pilot project

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with omar ali

omar ali Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @omarali50

Jan 23, 2023
Kashmiri craftsmanship 1845 (from col Henry Steinbach, employed by ranjit singh for 8 years)
Ranjeet singh agrees to bury a faqir for 40 days..
Steinbach is not impressed with the Sikhs, but admires their charity
Read 7 tweets
Dec 22, 2022
ROFLMAO. That Guardian (and its readers) take this super elite bullshit as insightful commentary on Pakistan perfectly sums up their world. Mashallah.

Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan’s transgressive pop culture went global theguardian.com/culture/2022/d…
BTW, She thinks "trans people had important cultural positions under the mughals".. that they were enslaved and castrated first is of no consequence as long as high culture is being produced...
She also thinks that India is a RW fascist dictatorship, but Pakistan is "transgressive, progressive", etc etc... Her first example is a movie that has been banned in most of Pakistan. Another is an artist in the USA who sells art worth millions.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 10, 2022
One minor irony in this farce is that Imran Khan regime was as corrupt, more incompetent. more nakedly pro-capitalist and resorted to more begging internationally than any previous regime.. but ex-ISPR interns worked hard on a very different narrative and are winning that war...
Even this whole narrative of "we switched to the opposite camp, so America is punishing us" is a farce, not bcz US is not interfering (they probably are, they always do) bcz no well thought out switch was in process.. IK making off the cuff nasim hijazi statements is NOT the same
If I did not have friends and family in Pakistan, I wud have the option of laughing 24/7 at this comedy. There are even Pakistani leftists whose "revolution may finally be here" module has been triggered by IK. Hilarious, if not so tragic..
Read 4 tweets
Nov 9, 2021
For iqbal birthday.. A series of snapshots from professor Nauman Faizi's excellent book about iqbal's "reconstruction of religious thought in Islam" amazon.com/God-Science-Se…
Read 11 tweets
Apr 14, 2020
OK, completely random thread. Led by some Googling into the Asiatic Journal, I have some interesting snippets from that journal.. Very interesting browsing for your quarantine days books.google.com/books?id=CihGA…
Expenditure of an English household in 1840s Calcutta..
Description of duties.. Khansama
Read 10 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(