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Open Thread: Navarātri and Durgā Pūjā
The Open Thread for Navarātri and Durgā Pūjā, with a note on fixing the site’s back end, and why Brown Pundits readers and commenters want such different things.
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Open Thread: Gandhi Jayanti
The Open Thread for Gandhi Jayanti, and a new rhythm: from now on a fresh Open Thread opens on each major festival of the subcontinent, 18 a year.
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A new look for Brown Pundits
X.T.M reports that Brown Pundits has been backed up, cleared of eight unused plugins and redesigned. The homepage now loads in under two seconds, with live comments beside the newest…
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Izzat Maxing
X.T.M answers Q’s claim that India–Pakistan wars will stay short, arguing that allies matter only for the fifth day. He tests this against 1971, Kargil, Operation Sindoor and the Gulf…
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A Pakistani Hindu is not content but is Content
X.T.M argues that social media rewards rarity: a Hindu in Pakistan or a Jew in Iran becomes a story, while the same people in India or Israel are absorbed into…
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The Peshawar Review
X.T.M lists the contents of the October issue of The Peshawar Review, including pieces by Anjum Altaf on September Eleven and Harbans Mukhia’s memoir of Dr K. M. Ashraf, and…
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Open Thread: What’s new?
Open Thread, 24 September 2026. Agni opens with the Tata Sons and Tata Trusts dispute, the IIT Bombay student death and its politics, the US–Iran conflict and Indian energy, Trump…
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Racial curve fitting analysis
Indosaurus questions the popular claim that Arab culture explains Arab military defeats, noting that the same traits appear in Japanese corporate life and that Houthis and Hezbollah have outperformed. He…
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The iPhone, Babur & are sons sold in shops?
A Dalit with an iPhone 16 has purchasing power, not the end of caste. And a Turkic sword at the birth of Indo-Islam is not a claim over South Asian…
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IIT Bombay Says It Followed Procedure. A Student Is Dead.
Sahil Wakode was caught with his phone in a midterm at IIT Bombay and was dead by evening. The institute says he was counselled and reassured; the family alleges threats…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
