September 2025
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Brown Pundits and the Echo Chamber Problem
The author warns that Brown Pundits risks becoming a right-wing echo chamber, and argues that after Pahalgam India’s position has weakened while Pakistan under Asim Munir and Shehbaz Sharif has…
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Pakistan will recognize Israel?
The author suggests Pakistan’s Saudi defence pact was a step towards normalisation with Israel, citing Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet welcoming Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan, and asks what Pakistani masses will think.
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Homebound with Ishaan Khatter
Reviewing the film Homebound, India’s Oscar submission, the author asks whether casting privileged actors as a Dalit and a Muslim amounts to Dalit-washing, and whether Western praise rewards poverty as…
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The River Cannot Go Back
Shares a poem about a river entering the sea, attributed to Kahlil Gibran, and notes Gibran’s admiration for ʻAbdu’l-Bahá and his Muslim ancestry.
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Roman Palestine and the Crusades
Drawing on childhood reading of English history, the author outlines Roman rule in Palestine, the Jewish diaspora after 70 CE, and the Crusades, arguing that no Babylonian or Assyrian records…
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Indians assimilate a bit too well?
Remarks that two very different Indian-Americans are in a public fight, and wonders whether Indians have little asabiyyah, assimilating too well.
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PPP – Post Pahalgam Pakistan..
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The Changing Demographics of Undivided India (1900–2025)
The author charts Muslims’ share of undivided India’s population, from about 20% in 1900 to roughly 33% in 2025. He credits higher fertility and partition migration, and argues falling fertility,…
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Travelling – Open Thread
Open thread collecting links from the comments: the rupee’s slide after US visa fee hikes, the Saudi–Pakistan defence pact, the World Bank on Pakistan’s growth model, and India’s rail-mounted Agni…
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On Islamism, the Oneness of Mankind, and the Burden of Public Bahá’ís
The author argues that Islamism is a loaded term in Western discourse, and that a prominent British Bahá’í comedian’s use of it fell short of the Bahá’í principle of oneness…
