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Two Colonisations, One Border: What the Data Actually Says About Bengal’s Post-1971 Demographic Story
X.T.M argues census data tell two stories of demographic change in eastern India: Bengali Hindus settled Tripura with state sanction, while Muslim growth in Assam and Bengal border districts is…
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Honour and Acid: The Great Indus Split
X.T.M tests the claim that honour killing is Pakistan’s inheritance from Indus culture and acid attacks India’s. The data are messy and undercounted, but the line broadly holds. Both practices…
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Why is Pakistani Culture obsessed with Policing Female Virginity?
X.T.M reflects on an overheard story of a Pakistani-origin daughter in Europe and the murders of Sana Cheema and Qandeel Baloch. The post argues that policing a daughter’s body remains…
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Kabir, the Anchor of the Crescent
Without Kabir, the Crescent faction disperses. A South Asian forum without a sustained Crescent voice is a drawing room pretending to be a commons. Three rulings on Author autonomy, Founder…
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We Are Now Hitting 200 Comments a Day
X.T.M reports comment volume nearing 200 a day and explains why the site speaks in the plural. A plural voice separates rulings from personal preference, and Precedent posts carry settled…
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Does the average muslim ‘dislike hindus’?
RecoveringNewsJunkie rejects a commenter’s claim that the average Muslim dislikes Hindus. The post argues that treating hundreds of millions as one mindset ignores regional and class differences, that political and…
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Men of State, and the Great Mahatma
X.T.M sets four house positions: Jinnah and Nehru were men of state, judged as builders of states; Gandhi was a man of Dharma, a different category; Ambedkar is a constitutional…
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Parsi Nanis Are Gujarati
X.T.M reads genetic studies of the Parsis, with Iranian paternal lines and roughly half South Asian maternal lines, to argue that Parsi Gujarati comes from founding Gujarati mothers. A Facebook…
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Founder Sites and Institutional Sites: A Note on Sikh Sacred Geography
X.T.M announces an automatic fine for racialised language against Dravidian communities, then sets a framework for disputes over Sikh holy places. Founder sites such as Nankana Sahib lie in Pakistan,…
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Op Sindoor Was Not a Pakistani Defeat: Precedents Two Days From Pahalgam
Two days from the Pahalgam anniversary, three precedents worth setting down before the narrative hardens: Sindoor was not a Pakistani defeat, the Crescent commentariat cannot keep living Western lives while…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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