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Nepal Newar and Sinhala Quasi-Historical Myths
Sbarr Kumarakulasinghe summarises Naomi Appleton’s article on the Simhala story, which Sinhalese chroniclers, Nepal’s Newar traders and Jaffna Tamils each claim as an origin myth, and adds a note on…
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.2)
Part 1.2 of the Meltdown Bhāṣya commentary on verse 1.1.1 sketches a history of capitalism, commoditisation and production, tracing how Nick Land’s idea of a technocapital singularity draws on Deleuze…
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Trump Has Birthed Eurasia
X.T.M argues that Donald Trump’s treatment of India has pushed Narendra Modi towards the SCO summit alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, and reads the occasion as the start of…
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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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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
