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Padmavati quip; Jauhar or Jihad?
X.T.M recounts a quip from his wife while watching Padmavati, set against the history of Chittor Fort, contrasting medieval jauhar with modern jihad as a joke about which culture is…
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Review: The Storm Before the Storm
Omar Ali reviews Mike Duncan’s The Storm Before the Storm, a lively account of the Roman Republic from 146 to 78 BC, praising its vivid portrait of the decline of…
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Comment of the Day – the State of Sri Lanka
X.T.M promotes a comment from sbarrkum correcting views of Sri Lanka as part of greater India, arguing it has no upper-caste varnas, a polyglot history and strong social indicators, followed…
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Do Muslim refugees have a right to Australia?
X.T.M argues Australia is entitled to protect its borders, that Muslim refugees should be hosted by neighbouring countries and the wider Ummah, and that the West should not intervene as…
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Comment of the day
X.T.M promotes a comment by girmit on how wealth is distributed across ethnic groups, adding his own view of class in Britain and Pakistan and tribal ties in Uganda.
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Mindy Kaling – the South East Asian
X.T.M notes that Mindy Kaling, called South-East Asian by director Ava DuVernay, is of Tamil and Bengali descent, and reflects on how Hollywood sorts people as either White or ‘Wakandan’…
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Persian Princess of Pakistan; Benazir Bhutto
X.T.M, who shares Benazir Bhutto’s half-Persian background, repeats an excerpt about her childhood in a household where her father’s Persian mistress held pride of place, and speculates on its effect…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
