July 2025
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Was Partition Good for Muslims?
X.T.M argues that Partition, sold as deliverance, was a sophisticated act of self-disinheritance for South Asian Muslims, leaving them divided across three states, without electoral leverage, with a psychological cleft,…
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The Gratitude Trap: On Escaping Asia but Staying Captive
X.T.M uses a returnee’s complaints about India to argue that migrants fall into a ‘gratitude trap’, mistaking Western clean streets and order for civilisational gifts, and that postcolonial recovery needs…
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Why Pakistan Is a Colonial Project & India a Civilizational One
X.T.M argues that Pakistan is a colonial continuation built by divide and rule, that India is a civilisational project, that the term ‘South Asia’ reflects a London-drawn map, and that…
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Comments, Censorship, and the Cultivation of Voice
X.T.M updates the comment rules: authors moderate their own threads, comments are voided rather than deleted, authors never moderate each other, and commenters who want to avoid moderation are invited…
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Borders, Blind Spots, and the Mirror Game of South Asia
X.T.M sets out rival Pakistani and Indian arguments over Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir in 1947 and Balochistan later, concluding both sides are mirrors, demanding flexibility for themselves and finality for…
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The Myth of the “Average Pakistani”
X.T.M rebuts a commenter’s praise of a ‘liberal’ Shia couple from Baltistan as unlike the ‘average Pakistani’, calling the framing patronising and a colonial hangover, and arguing that Pakistanis prize…
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If You Have a Side, You Don’t Care for the Other Side
X.T.M argues that partisanship is not empathy: those who already have a side do not truly care for the other, as Pakistanis and Indians alike use the other’s minorities as…
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Let Hindus Decide for India
X.T.M argues that a coalition of Islamists, liberal elites and foreign commentators resists Hindu political consolidation, that Hinduism and India are coterminous, and that those who opted out of Hindustan…
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What Is Brown Pundits For?
X.T.M calls Brown Pundits an open tent and sets out four standing norms for authors: do not void each other’s threads, do not deprecate views in another’s thread, ask him…
