November 2025
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Why we must talk about caste
X.T.M argues that a caste jibe set off a reader boycott on BP, and that controversial voices are what keep the comment threads alive. He concludes caste is the deep…
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Love Jihad Zohran
X.T.M jokes that Zohran Mamdani is a product of ‘Love Jihad’, citing an Indian Eye interview where Mamdani described growing up in an interfaith family.
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Where is Odette Yang
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Free Speech
X.T.M says free speech is inviolable on BP, that criticism of Pakistan or any country cannot be off-limits, and that a deleted thread cannot be restored.
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Book Review: Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan. Ikbal Shah and Idries Shah (of Sufis fame)
Omar Ali reviews Nile Green’s biography of Ikbal and Idries Shah, which presents the father and son as fantasists who invented aristocratic Sufi credentials. He accepts the case but notes…
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The Broken Compact
The author argues that the incremental Indian and American Dream, in which education and merit lead to mobility, has expired for a generation. He sees a new South Asian left…
