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Kohrra Season 2: Review
Bombay Badshah gives a spoiler-free recommendation of Kohrra season 2 on Netflix, calling it twistier and more technically accomplished than the first. He praises the cinematography, acting and multilingual dialogue,…
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Open Thread: Bharat overawes France
Open thread opening with a Vandana Shiva line on billionaires’ wealth, President Macron thanking India, and the Uzbek prime minister singing a Raj Kapoor song, plus a remark that Louis…
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Japan: War Criminal Dynasty and Moonies
Sbarrkum summarises a YouTube video alleging that the CIA backed Nobusuke Kishi and the LDP, used the Unification Church to move money, and later shifted to Turning Point USA. The…
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Back from Vermont
After a week skiing in Vermont, X.T.M argues that the Karakoram, Himalaya and Hindu Kush have the terrain for a major winter sports economy. Militarisation, contested borders and weak infrastructure,…
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Evangelicals ban Behemoth from Bangalore
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Pakistan Does Not Need to Imitate India to Be Stable
X.T.M answers a call for Pakistan to turn secular and drop Kashmir. He argues that state failure comes from weak institutions rather than religious language, that Kashmir is foundational to…
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Pakistan – Falling Behind in the Indian Subcontinent
Bombay Badshah uses UN and Global Data Lab human development figures to argue that Pakistan now has the lowest HDI in the subcontinent, is set to fall below Nepal on…
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Bangladesh
X.T.M posts a BBC report on Tarique Rahman’s swearing-in as Bangladesh’s prime minister, with an opinion piece by Irfan Chowdhury for Sapan News on the BNP’s two-thirds win in the…
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Pakistan’s dramatic drop in fertility
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s fertility fall from 3.61 to 3.19 children per woman reflects urbanisation, education, female work and social media rather than ideology or theology. He says religious societies…
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Open Thread
Open thread; X.T.M says he has much to write about but is parking it for a little while.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
