May 2026
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7 Steps to Financial Freedom: My First Book
An investment adviser announces his first book on personal finance. He describes the rapid growth of Indian retail investing, warns about fin-influencers and derivatives trading (citing a SEBI study that…
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Open thread Indian scenes
Open thread on Indian politics: a commentator’s view of Vijay’s secularism and his temple visits, and a view that the Tata group’s difficulties stem from too much power given to…
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The Prussia of the Ummah
Building on RNJ’s comment that Munir’s consolidation makes a second Pahalgam unlikely, the post argues Pakistan’s army-led settlement is not a pause before collapse but a durable hybrid regime, ‘the…
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Sanam Saeed at Cannes, Alia Bhatt Out of Frame?
The post reads Sanam Saeed’s Hussain Rehar couture at Cannes 2026, set against Alia Bhatt’s L’Oréal appearance, as an apparent civilisational reversal that is not one: Pakistan and Iran inherit…
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Open Thread- Love Jihad?
Open thread opening on interfaith marriage and ‘Love Jihad’, with a quoted view that it is conversion when only one partner shares the other’s culture, and a pointer to Dr…
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Why Caste Formed In India and how the heck it could have been maintained! – A Structural Model
Dr Rajorshi Datta argues that strict caste endogamy in India came from structural predisposition rather than luck, using a model of subcontinents as ‘containers’ and upstream geographic and ecological variables.…
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Dhurandhar crashes Netflix servers in Pakistan: Trending # 1
A short note on reports that Dhurandhar 2 is trending first on Netflix Pakistan despite a theatre ban, which the poster takes as a sign it is doing well there…
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Islamicate Civilisation is a Supreme Culture: But Who Stands to Inherit It?
The post argues that Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal high culture is a supreme achievement, yet Islamicate civilisation has no custodian state among some sixty Muslim-majority countries, unlike the West, China…
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The Bahá’í Position on Palestine: A Note for the Record
The author sets out what the Bahá’í position on Palestine is, quoting Shoghi Effendi’s 1947 reply to the UN. The World Centre in Haifa and Akka is there for theological,…
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The saffron and the crescent – why BP matters
The author argues that candid comments from Pakistani Muslim commenters on interfaith marriage and idol worship expose a Hindu-Muslim mismatch in worldviews that Indian liberals avoid confronting, and cites Pew…
