November 2025
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Authors, please dont post against each other
Omar Ali asks authors not to write posts against each other and to settle disputes in comments, and asks Kabir to limit himself to one post a day.
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Does India need more Radhakrishnans? Is it getting them?
RecoveringNewsJunkie links a Print opinion piece on shifting Indian academia toward Indic heritage and asks where today’s Radhakrishnans are.
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Sri Kumari my Late Partner
Sbarrkum shares a video of an Adivasi dance and remembers his late partner, whose parents were killed by the LTTE.
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BP may have just jumped the shark
X.T.M mocks a claim that a Brahmin calling someone sub-human is casteist, arguing that an insult is an insult and that caste-specific moral disclaimers amount to moral policing.
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Mid-Nov Circular
X.T.M’s mid-November circular says BP will not run a hyper-moderated blog: authors control their own threads, there will be no bans, and everyone should calm down and carry on.
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Calm Down and Carry on.
Omar Ali asks for calm after harsh comments and posts, and urges inactive authors to write more.
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What Is Not India Is Pakistan
Taking one commenter’s line, ‘What is not India is Pakistan’, as a sharp description of how the Pakistani state has built its identity.
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Open Thread – PakMil manipulates the ‘constitution’ yet again.
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose PakMil pushes through the 27th amendment, giving ‘constitutional cover to its control of all branches of the Pakistani government including judiciary
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Multi Racial Multi Cultural Family in Ceylon
Sbarrkum recounts his mother’s multiracial family in Galle, mixing Sinhalese, Irish, Jaffna Tamil and Barbadian ancestry, and argues that children of mixed marriages belong to no single community and so…
