May 2025
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From Yohani to Nora: How Bollywood Mughalizes Everything
Using Royals and the Manike Mage Hithe remix, X.T.M argues that Bollywood ‘Mughalizes’ regional inputs, so India kept the composite culture without religion while Pakistan kept the religion but lost…
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“Mimicstan”: the burden of Purity from Pagan origins
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s Anglo-Urdu elite is a ‘mimic elite’ that imposed a post-colonial ideology of rupture from the subcontinent, suppressing Pashtun, Baloch and Bengali identities, and contrasts it with…
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India as a Civilizational State; Possibility or Delusion?
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Norouz or Nowhere: The Identity Pakistan Can’t Claim
X.T.M asks why Pakistanis who claim a Persianate high culture ignore Norouz, noting that Aurangzeb abolished it, and argues that Pakistan’s post-colonial elite curates rupture rather than heritage, even though…
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🌇 Dispatch from Dubai: The City-State That Arrived
Reflecting on a work trip, Zachary L. Zavidé argues that Dubai has become a city in command, a clean, optimised, culturally rooted prototype city-state, and suggests such cities will attract…
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The Arrogance That Binds: Post-Colonial Delusions in the English speaking Pakistani Mind
X.T.M argues that the English-speaking Pakistani elite suffers from ‘Post-Colonial Derangement’, denying India’s civilisational place in Pakistan’s past, and says patriotism lets one belong while nationalism forces a choice, pointing…
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Why Pakistanis Should Say Jai Hind: Civilizational Fractures in a Post-Nation South Asia
X.T.M argues that Pakistan cannot opt out of Hind, its mother civilisation, even if it rejects Bharat the state, so saluting Jai Hind can be a civilisational gesture, and he…
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Modi the man
A short post pairing a Modi poster with the author’s view that Modi has presided over a successful decade for India, and criticising majoritarianism in Pakistan.
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BP Ground Rules for Commenters
Comment policy update: how the spam filter treats comments with several links, trusted commenters, what to do if a comment disappears, moderation style, and the principles that rule out jingoism…
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China: The Unseen Winner of the Indo-Pak Skirmish?
A short framing note followed by a relayed Telegram-circulated account and a commenter’s quoted view of the May 2025 India-Pakistan air clash, claiming Chinese systems outperformed Western ones and that…
