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Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually
The author argues that in the West all immigrants eventually become ‘white’ in assimilation, aesthetics and aspiration, and expects Indian Americans to dissolve into the mainstream within a few generations,…
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🕯️ Saving Adam
The author breaks his reluctance to write on Israel–Palestine to recount a Gaza paediatrician’s loss of nine children and her surviving son Adam, and asks when it is time to…
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🧵Quick Moderation Note
X.T.M asks commenters to keep India–Pakistan arguments to relevant posts and Open Threads, and not to steer every thread there. Moderation will be light, with offensive comments flagged.
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🇮🇳Op Sindoor: A Podcast on Pahalgam, Pakistan, and the Limits of Peace
X.T.M reflects on the first half-hour of the BrownCast episode on Op Sindoor, covering the Pahalgam massacre, Modi and Nawaz Sharif’s failed diplomacy, the civil–military cycle in Pakistan, and India’s…
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On Moderation, Minoritization, and the Elite
X.T.M reflects on over-curating the threads and says his interest has moved from the India–Pakistan binary to who makes meaning and who sits in the room, setting out nested elite…
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Belated Podcast: Operation Sindoor (and Bunyan al Marsoos)
Amey hosts Omar Ali and Poulasta on the recent India–Pakistan conflict and Operation Sindoor. Omar says much of the discussion circles back to Partition and related misunderstandings, and that the…
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US Economics and Theory of Collapse
Citing the national debt, deficits and a Moody’s downgrade, the post debates whether the US faces economic decline, then applies Joseph Tainter’s theory of diminishing returns on complexity, pointing to…
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Request for Calm and Civility
X.T.M asks commenters for calm and civility after a run of angry replies, urging them to engage ideas rather than identities, and says the Brown Pundits email account has been…
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🪙 What’s in a Name? Mukesh, Not Mukash.
Prompted by a misspelling of Mukesh Ambani’s name, X.T.M argues that upper-caste Indians wrongly expect wealth to buy Western respect, describes a Brahmin–Baniya compact, and says China profits quietly from…
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💔Sana Yusuf Did Not Have to Die
After the murder of TikTok creator Sana Yusuf in Karachi, X.T.M argues that violence against women in Pakistan is an outcome of a society built on honour and male entitlement,…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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