August 2025
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Open Thread: Pakistan Floods – Let’s Talk
Open thread on the Punjab floods in Pakistan, where record monsoon rains and overflowing rivers have displaced nearly 300,000 people, with fears of disease and food shortages. Readers are invited…
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Why Travelogues?
A short post on why the author reads travelogues, recommending Shueyb Gandapur’s “Coming Back”, an account of a Pakistani chartered accountant’s 2017 journey through India, and asking readers for suggestions.
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The Aryan Cleft: Pakistan as the Cradle and Cusp of Indo-Iranian Civilisation
X.T.M argues that Pakistan sits at the hinge of the Indo-Iranian world, where Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages and Bronze Age migrations meet, and that British canal colonies abruptly turned a…
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What is Trump doing?
A link to a post on X with four points about what Donald Trump said: that he claimed seven jets were shot down, mimicked an Indian accent, called Indo-Pak tensions…
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Gaza open thread
Open thread on Gaza. X.T.M calls it a genocide and invites the commentariat, particularly right-wing Indians, to respond.
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The Long Defeat: How Hinduphobia Hollowed Out Pakistan
X.T.M reads a Dawn article’s misspelling and ordering of religions as evidence of Hinduphobia in Pakistani discourse, which he describes as erasure rather than violence, and explains his new policy…
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Untitled, 24 August 2025
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Why does the West get Immigrants and not Indigenous
Sereno Barr-Kumarakulasinghe argues that Western countries prefer immigrants to indigenous populations for the same reason the British brought undocumented indentured Indian labour to Ceylon: people without legal status are easier…
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India’s sugar was bitter, until her first female scientist made it sweet
X.T.M retells the story of E.K. Janaki Ammal, born in Kerala in 1897 to a Thiyya family, the first Indian woman with a doctorate in botanical science, who crossbred sugarcane…
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Hinduphobia Exists, But Pakistan Was Not Born from It
X.T.M argues that Hinduphobia exists, mostly as dismissal and erasure in academic and diasporic discourse, but that Pakistan was not born of it. He sees the Partition as a Muslim…
