May 2018
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Mein Kashmiri Brahmin hoon
X.T.M comments on a video of an Australian man speaking as a Kashmiri Brahmin, finding the ‘coloniser privilege’ overdone, and wonders what Prince Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle means for…
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What the world can do to help Palestine?
The author argues that foreign aid to Palestinians should be conditional on reforms building a market economy based on competence, so that Palestinians gain leverage to negotiate with Israel on…
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Jinnah the actor & Quaid the Performer
X.T.M reacts to a circulated piece on Jinnah’s early wish to act, and to quoted accounts that he never expected Pakistan, saying that if Jinnah did not want Partition he,…
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Harlem (NY) as I knew in mid 1990’s
Sbarrkum shares a video of Harlem in the mid-1990s, now gentrified, and recalls friends there and his years in the US on an H-1B visa.
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10 Questions on South Asia
A list of ten light questions for readers on South Asia, from whether East Pakistan would have survived without India in 1971 to the Indian Premier League, Bollywood and who…
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BJPization of Dalits
X.T.M, with a deliberately provocative title, reads the Karnataka result as Dalit voters moving behind the BJP, and speculates that Hindutva, if it ended caste hierarchy, might be welcome, while…
