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Dioglossia in Sinhala
Picking up from sbarrakum’s comment on Sinhalese. First page of Beowulf in Old English
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Why does the Liberal Left applaud America haters
X.T.M argues that immigrant Americans who express bile about the United States, such as Qasim Rashid and Hoda Katebi, are ungrateful, distinguishing them from Native and African Americans, and says…
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Is there anything intrinsically attractive about Western Civ
X.T.M, starting from a 17th-century Siamese court’s interest in French science, asks whether Western civilisation has intrinsic appeal, argues Huntington was proved right over Fukuyama’s end of history, and compares…
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You don’t sound American
X.T.M comments on a clip of the Iranian-American blogger Hoda Katebi being told she does not sound American, and finds it jarring that she defines herself as a Muslim Iranian,…
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Brown Roundup
A roundup noting a Tripura chief minister’s remark on a foreign woman’s looks, the CBI’s win against Vijay Mallya, and X.T.M’s view that naming Prince Louis after Mountbatten is insensitive…
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Word
X.T.M, admitting to Mughal fondness, jokes that Pakistani friends in a London literary group chose a trendy Persian restaurant over an Indo-Pak one, reading it as a Persianate leaning in…
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Are the AASI black?
X.T.M asks whether the Ancestral South Indians were black, arguing that genetics has been oriented around whiteness and that these ancestors, related to coastal ‘Negrito’ waves, gave South Asians their…
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Atheists and Religion
Omar Ali shares a Twitter thread by Mark Changizi on how he became respectful of religion, calling it interesting.
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Closing the genetic chapter
Razib Khan says that, given the Rakhigarhi preprint, it is time to close the genetic chapter: Indus people mixed Iranian-related and native ancestry, a steppe incursion followed around 1500 BC,…
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Colonial Dravidian
X.T.M, picking up Vijay’s post, argues that the Aryan-Dravidian divide, caste and the Hindu-Muslim split were largely colonial constructions, quoting Lord Curzon that India’s natural boundaries are mountains and seas,…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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