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Kashmir
With the Kashmir government fallen, X.T.M says he would prefer the LoC as a soft border with no redrawing of the map, and warns he will delete comments that turn…
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Indian Religious Landscape Survey
Omar Ali invites readers to take a three-question survey on what they think will happen to India’s religious landscape and why, as input to a later post, and asks for…
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Avtar Singh Khalsa: Lion of Afghanistan
The author profiles Avtar Singh Khalsa, a Sikh member of the Afghan Parliament who reaches out to the Taliban for peace, and quotes a report of a Herat peace meeting,…
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Wild natives and the white Man’s burden
X.T.M recounts two remarks by white academics that he calls microaggressions, and argues that elites churn only enough to keep their power, that the model-minority Asian is too busy succeeding…
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The Grand Punditess of Them All
X.T.M shares Vidhi’s talk on Gaussian processes at the CogX conference, noting she was one of very few women speaking on a technical subject and that British academia is astonishingly…
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Open Thread
Open thread of 13 June 2018 for general discussion; readers are asked to keep other posts on topic.
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Political Engineering in Pakistan Part II
Omar Ali posts Hamid Hussain’s explainer on political engineering in Pakistan before the 25 July 2018 election, written for non-Pakistanis, which opens with quotations on the failings of political leaders,…
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The invention of Hinduism 1,000 years ago by a Muslim
Razib Khan criticises the Eurocentrism of postcolonial discourse and offers extracts from the Central Asian polymath Al-Biruni on Indian religion, as one of the earliest extensive outsider accounts of the…
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Bangladeshi freethinker shot dead
A reproduced report that Shahzahan Bachchu, a Bangladeshi secularist publisher and Communist Party activist, was shot dead in Munshiganj district; Razib Khan adds only a line of Psalm-style scepticism about…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,924 comments
