July 2026
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A blogging hiatus
Nachiketa says they have not posted or commented on BP for a while and will likely stay away for at least a few months unless something provokes a post.
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desi open thread
k jayas’s open thread of seven short items: the death of singer S. Janaki, Australian uranium sales to India, Modi, Rahul Gandhi’s travels, Hindu push-back over the Sutlej, urban flooding…
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The Crescent and the Trident clash over their women
X.T.M argues that the Crescent’s seclusion and the Trident’s ‘protection’ of women are unequal in statute, citing Pakistan’s Hudood Ordinances, but equivalent in structure, as the bahu-beti bachao slogan and…
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Pakistan & India as Imperial Nation States
X.T.M reports a conference claim that India and Pakistan are post-imperial states smothering small nations, does not adopt that frame, and argues that ethnicity resurges in Pakistan because Islam has…
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June Readership Numbers
X.T.M reports June 2026 traffic of just under 54,000 visits, down about twelve per cent: mostly phone and direct readers, a third from search, 0.4 per cent from AI answer…
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Reading Dawn in Delhi.
X.T.M reports Beena Sarwar’s talk at Mela Nordic’s Stockholm Partition event, tracing the end of Aman ki Asha to Sapan, a volunteer network with a minimum common agenda that bans…
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The Gender Precedent
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The Meltwater Carries No Passport
X.T.M reports Anuradha Bhasin’s talk at Mela Nordic’s Stockholm Partition event, which proposed cross-border newsrooms, a shared archive and arts as empathy, and weighs it against earlier attempts such as…
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Two House Precedents
Two house precedents: online-safety reports must now reach the editors by email, and BP restates its aims as density (20 comments per post) and diversity (five voices per thread), with…
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Geography is Power
A reply to X.T.M’s post, this essay argues from realism that geography has shaped South Asian states’ trajectories, citing Mackinder and Spykman, Pakistan’s Cold War and GWOT frontier role, and…
