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Double Standards, Modi’s Gamble, and Why Ramadan Gets It Right
X.T.M argues that applying a deconstructive lens to Hinduism but not Islam is asymmetric, citing Manu Pillai’s book. The post also treats Pakistan’s literacy gap and Modi’s strategy, and ends…
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The Cantonment and the Clean Street: Why Pakistan’s Punjab Looks More Ordered Than India’s
X.T.M asks why Pakistan’s Punjab feels more ordered than richer India. He answers that military cantonments and DHA enclaves are governed outside city control, so the order seen on Lahore’s…
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According to BAFTA, ‘Free Palestine’ is the slur. Not the N-word.
X.T.M argues that the BBC, working on a two-hour tape delay, aired an involuntary racial slur from a man with Tourette’s yet cut “Free Palestine” from a filmmaker’s speech. He…
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What Tehran and Harvard Have in Common; And Why Trump Is Letting Both Burn
X.T.M announces the return of the BRAHM newsletter, whose first piece argues Iranian clerics and US academia both traded moral authority for proximity to power, and that Trump is letting…
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She Parked a Car With Her Husband. Fifty Years Later, She Is Still Waiting.
X.T.M tells the story of Damayanti Tambay, who has searched for fifty years for her husband, missing since the 1971 war, with 54 Indian personnel still unaccounted for. He argues…
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Brown Pundits Is Not a Cesspit. Keep It That Way.
X.T.M announces that all four authors are moved to commentator status until each commits to evidence-based comments. The post sets out how “genocide” is defined and contested for 1971, and…
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Indian Music Spotlight – Kazinama – Ahista Ahista
Bombay Badshah shares Kazinama’s Ahista Ahista, an Indian neo-soul remix of a late-1980s Pakistani song, with an editor’s note on crediting the original artist.
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3,920 | Building out the Archive
X.T.M reports that Brown Pundits has reached 3,920 posts, every one categorised. He argues that tending the archive makes the site a lasting record rather than a feed, and notes…
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Pakistan, India – culture, music, movies
RecoveringNewsJunkie offers a palate cleanser from comment-thread hostility, noting the shared culture of India and Pakistan. He points to cricketer Usman Tariq’s inspiration from an Indian film, and to Pakistanis’…
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Poorer Pakistan OutFoxes Richer India?
X.T.M argues that although India is richer, Pakistan’s narrower, military-anchored power structure gives it structural resilience in confrontation, while India’s democracy imposes restraint. He says understanding this asymmetry beats arguing…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
