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🎶 Bravo, Kabir | Artists Across Borders
X.T.M celebrates a virtual Indian–Pakistani artists’ dialogue, including the singer Kabir Altaf, as shared heritage doing what diplomacy cannot, and lists the event’s moderator and speakers.
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📯 Back at Peak: 22,453 Monthly Readers and Rising
Brown Pundits reports 22,453 monthly readers, its highest in about fifteen years, with 100-plus comments on most new posts.
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Why Pakistan Won’t Go the Way of Iran
X.T.M argues that Pakistan will not follow Iran’s path of secularisation because Pakistani Islam is inherited bottom-up and fuelled by Partition’s trauma, whereas Iran’s was imposed in 1979 and so…
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📊 Estimated Audience Size & Profile
An estimate of Brown Pundits’ audience: roughly 20,000 monthly readers, 100 or more comments on recent posts, and a readership led by the United States and India.
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India, Pakistan & the Central Asian Dancefloor
X.T.M contrasts India joining the CAFA Nations Cup, a sign of its growing standing in Central Asia, with its withdrawal from a World Championship of Legends match against Pakistan after…
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why romanticism?
A poem defending romanticism in a capitalist, post-ideological world, with a note explaining Lacan’s “Real”.
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Most Beautiful Island in the World
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Sticky Thinking; A Quick Note on Originality & Visibility
X.T.M announces a trial of pinning original, unpublished pieces to the top of the page, following a reader’s suggestion, and asks editors to use judgement about what counts as original.
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The Fading Red
The author explains the context of a poem written from the perspective of The Communist Manifesto, prompted by a Žižek–Peterson debate and by memories of reading the book in 2019,…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
