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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.

X.T.M14 November 202511 comments
Pak Journalist Blames Munir for India and Pak Blasts

Reproduces an Asianet News report of Taha Siddiqui’s claim that the Delhi and Islamabad blasts were carried out by Pakistan Army ‘assets’, and asks whether he has evidence.

Manav Sachdeva13 November 202523 comments
Where is Odette Yang

X.T.M12 November 20256 comments
Red Fort Attack and Aftermath: Initial Thoughts by Manav S.

Manav S. responds to the car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort, urging empathy, accountability and renewal while resisting simplistic communal attributions. He asks what such attacks mean for shared public…

Manav Sachdeva11 November 2025106 comments
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.

X.T.M11 November 202510 comments
Two of my recent essays

The author shares two essays: one on Iqbal’s birthday arguing we have misread him, and one on how book reviews and Bookstagram could build critical readership in Pakistan.

Furqan Ali10 November 202514 comments
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…

Omar Ali10 November 20251 comment
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…

X.T.M9 November 202512 comments
Mamdani and India — A Strategic Moment

Amb Manav Sachdeva argues that Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York mayor should push India to treat its diaspora as a strategic asset rather than a source of sentiment and…

Manav Sachdeva8 November 20254 comments
Zohran Mamdani open thread

Open thread on Zohran Mamdani’s election victory, which the author calls a huge deal, bigger than Sadiq Khan’s; readers are asked to post links, including an Urdu pop song about…

BP Admin Team · opened by X.T.M5 November 202532 comments