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Universal House of Justice elected
A report that delegates at the 12th International Bahá’í Convention in Haifa elected the nine-member Universal House of Justice for five-year terms, with the poster’s aside on finding it hard…
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Omg this is huge for all Pakis
X.T.M celebrates the first minority holder of a great office of state, noting London has a Pakistani-heritage mayor and Home Secretary, and observes that British Asian communities are more conservative…
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Humsafar & Shakespeare
X.T.M answers feminist critics of the Pakistani serial Humsafar as regressive by comparing it to Othello, where a husband is led by a manipulator to suspect his wife, and notes…
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Will India and Pakistan Learn from the Historic Korea Summit?
X.T.M quotes an article asking whether India and Pakistan can learn from the Korean summit, which suggests resuming sports and cultural exchange, and adds a quibble comparing the two partitioned…
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LV on Indira response
A Quora answer by Rahul Sinha explaining why Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency in 1975, covering suspended rights, press censorship and mass sterilisation, reproduced as a reply to a question.
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LV on Indira
X.T.M, after a Vidhi-prompted video of Indira Gandhi, calls her India’s best prime minister, credits her grit with breaking East Pakistan from Pakistan in 1971, and contrasts her charisma, intellect…
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Eclipse of the Turkish Armed Forces
Hamid Hussain, posted by Omar Ali, traces how the Turkish armed forces lost their role as guardian of Kemalist secularism, following the failed July 2016 coup and fifteen years of…
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Bi Kidude, Sri Lankan Baila and Traditional Drums
Sbarrkum, cross-posting from his blog, hears similarities between the Zanzibari Taarab singer Bi Kidude, who died in 2013, and Sri Lankan Baila and traditional drumming such as Yak Thovil, and…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
