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No, Mughals didn’t loot India. They made us rich
A quoted article, ‘No, Mughals didn’t loot India’, uses Angus Maddison’s figures to argue India’s economy grew under the Mughals and was the world’s largest until Britain’s rule, which the…
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Happy Women’s Day
For Women’s Day, X.T.M notes a Cambridge professor who is a Bahá’í and quotes ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s saying that humanity has two wings, women and men, adding an account of an exchange…
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Zinda Laash (the Living Corpse)
X.T.M argues Pakistan’s biggest mistake was moving its capital from Karachi to Islamabad, which he says contributed to secession, Punjabified the country and cost Muhajirs political power.
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Pakistan’s Punjab, the Urdu literary hub of Pakistan, is slowly waking up to its lost Punjabi identity
A quoted Scroll article arguing that Pakistan’s Punjab, long an Urdu literary hub, has lost its Punjabi identity as the language was cut off from education, shared by X.T.M without…
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Review: Stalin, waiting for Hitler..
A review of the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of Stalin, covering collectivisation, the terror and the years before Hitler’s invasion.
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Something is rotten in the State of Dubai
X.T.M says the reported story of Sridevi’s death in Dubai does not add up to him, questioning how a fit 55-year-old could have such a sudden heart attack.
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The North-West Frontier in 1947
Military historian Hamid Hussain examines frontier policy at independence in 1947, including Governor George Cunningham’s role, the order of battle and the mobilisation of Pakhtun tribesmen to attack Kashmir, a…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
