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Brown Pandas: Rising Toward a Saffron Crescent.
X.T.M argues that India-Pakistan hostility, like that between Iran and Israel, has been generative but miscalibrated, and that Pakistan’s elite chose to dominate a poor country. The post doubts the…
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On Censorship
RecoveringNewsJunkie complains that an author bans other authors from commenting on his threads, and asks whether the blog wants dueling threads or real discourse.
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Brown Pundits: Traffic Report, March 2026
March 2026 traffic was 43,417 visits, up 3.5 per cent, with Omar Ali’s Dhurandhar review the top page at 37 per cent of traffic. The site estimates a core of…
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The Game We Can Smell
X.T.M argues that liberal-left language has become a disguise for Hinduphobia, and that Hindus are expected to love the Mughals. After the death of Asha Bhosle, the post says Partition…
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A Minute of Silence for the Schoolgirls of Minab | Chehelom, 9 April 2026
X.T.M asks readers worldwide to observe a minute of silence at 10:45am Tehran time on 9 April, the Chehelom of 165 people, mostly schoolgirls, killed in the 28 February bombing…
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The Forty-Day War: Pakistan Saved the World?
On Pakistan acting as the bridge between Tehran and Washington to end the Forty-Day War, and why the author thinks this should have been India’s role.
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Ranbir as Lord Ram: The Indus Paradox
The man cast as Maryada Purushottam, the ideal Hindu man, the conscience-keeper of a civilisation, descends from Prithviraj Kapoor of Peshawar; a Hindu Pathan (his kinsman Anil Kapoor states on…
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Cholistan: The Desert at the Edge of Everything
X.T.M portrays Cholistan as a seam rather than a border region: Gulf royalty hunt there, Seraiki is its language, and the dry Hakra river runs through its past. The post…
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Open Thread + A Note on Standards
Brown Pundits raises its moderation standard: considered thought only, on all sides, effective immediately.
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Dhurandhar, Politics of Bollywood & India Pakistan
Nachiketa answers X.T.M’s criticism of Dhurandhar. He sees the two parts as one seven-hour film, finds the villains humanised and the film not anti-Islam, and argues India need not fear…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
