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Post Modernism (b)
Prompted by a Joe Rogan clip, the author notes that few US high-school graduates meet military entry standards. He links declining physical health and ‘bullshit jobs’ to depression, and points…
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Pakistan Elections 2018
Omar Ali previews Pakistan’s July 2018 election, arguing that the army, through its intelligence agencies and ISPR, has spent a year and a half campaigning against Nawaz Sharif and his…
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Open Thread
Open thread of 24 July 2018 for general discussion; readers are asked to keep other posts on topic.
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Why moderating this weblog has become more difficult
Razib Khan says moderating the weblog is getting harder: engagement is high and Indian readers are growing, so he expects them to outnumber American ones in 2019. He struggles to…
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Islam at her Greatest
X.T.M shares an Instagram map and calls the decline of Islam since 1492 the great story of the age, recalling Huntington’s maxim that Islam has bloody borders.
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Amartya Sen calls demonetisation despotic
X.T.M cites Amartya Sen’s attack on demonetisation, calling it a tax on the upper middle classes that India’s ultra-rich could avoid. He sees an oligarchic elite that adapts to every…
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How have the English paid for imperialism/colonialism?
X.T.M disputes the view that the English did South Asia favours, arguing that English benefits the Anglosphere, railways were supply chains rather than gifts, and India was no net expense…
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The future of Hindi cinema
Using the Dhadak reviews as a prompt, X.T.M sees an ‘Ambanification’, ‘KJoification’ and ‘Modisation’ of Indian national culture, and expects regional films, such as Marathi and Tamil cinema, to supply…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,924 comments
