September 2025
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The Ilhan Omar of Brown Pundits
The author likens the commenter Kabir to Ilhan Omar: often right but polarising, and good for traffic. He argues principle needs pragmatism, that nonviolent resistance outlasts shrillness, and that the…
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Pakistan: The Realpolitik State
The author argues that Pakistani society leans on hierarchy, patronage and deference and, as a state forged through separation, has little distinct culture beyond India and Iran. He grants that…
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H1B Open Thread
Open thread on H-1B visas; the author sees the Persian Gulf states emerging as a conduit between capital, labour and technology while the West raises walls.
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Moderation Note: On Gaza, October 7, and the Limits of Tolerance
A moderation note: the founder bars a commenter from becoming an author and removes his past comments, argues another commenter is a Muslim nationalist rather than an Islamist, and says…
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Call for Authors
Call for new authors: Brown Pundits wants regular commenters to apply to write, and notes that ‘Pundit’ means a learned person in a plural debating tradition.
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Links on My Browser Right Now – Open Thread
Open thread listing articles the author is reading, from Foreign Affairs on the Middle East to a piece on the post-literate society, with reflections on the Ummah, the Satanic Verses…
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Pakistan as India’s Ukraine?
X.T.M asks whether Pakistan’s strategic patrons will ever lift its human development, and offers the analogy of India and Pakistan as Russia and Ukraine, with Ukraine imagined as nuclear-armed. He…
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Netanyahu Depicts Grim Economic Future for Israel, Need to Become an Autarky, “Super Sparta” Due to Isolation; Are There More Meanings?
Excerpts and comment on Netanyahu’s speech warning that Israel may need to become a self-sufficient ‘super Sparta’ as it grows more isolated.
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🗓️ One Year Ago Today: The Taj Mahal, Sacred Lands, and the Power of Timing
Open thread for 17 September 2025. X.T.M announces a pause on one commenter’s participation over what he calls inconsistent standards on India, Pakistan and Israel, and revisits his 2024 post…
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Threads, Carpets, and PM Modi’s 75th
X.T.M reflects on celebrity birthday messages for Narendra Modi’s 75th, reads the Khans’ contrasting Hindu cultural idioms, and describes his work on Hindu sacred art, carpets and Ardhanarishvara iconography. He…
