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Ghar whapisi
X.T.M jokes that a booking made under his wife’s family name Lalchand sounded better than his own, and that he is thinking of softening his ‘Muslimness’ ahead of a possible…
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Should Western authors write on desi topics
X.T.M asks how receptive readers should be to Western authors on the subcontinent, arguing that William Dalrymple became its leading Western historian partly by claiming Indian ancestors, and that white…
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Sunday Thoughts
X.T.M announces that Kabir is again an author and that he can add contributors, restates that BP is not a safe space but personal abuse is out, and comments on…
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Is everyone racist and I’m not aware?
Razib Khan, after the Starbucks expulsion of two black men, says he is surprised that South Asians express fear of racial profiling when they are often mistaken for black or…
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A quick note on BP housekeeping
Razib Khan reports housekeeping: comments closed at Kabir’s request on a post to be deleted, three admins (Omar, Zach and himself), and wonder and concern about rising Indian traffic and…
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Great job by Pak police
Also check out, Pakistani media behind Asifa Bano Rape.
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Brown fat, the bad kind
Razib Khan notes that South Asians face higher metabolic risk at lower body weight, with a BMI above 23 a concern, and asks readers who stayed trim how they did…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
