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Bollywood, Brahmins, Parsis & WASPs:
X.T.M argues that elites are reproduced by property, institutions and networks rather than blood, so intermarriage is usually a merger, not a threat, citing English aristocrats and American heiresses, Parsis,…
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Dravidian Progressivism is a Scam
Nachiketa answers X.T.M on Chennai, arguing that the city’s welfare and cleanliness cannot simply be credited to Dravidian progressivism, pointing to Tamil Nadu’s 97 percent caste endogamy rate and describing…
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Venezuela as Pakistan: A Template, Not an Accident
X.T.M argues that Venezuela is being remade into a ‘Pakistan’: a regime form kept unstable, securitised and dependent, but intact enough to sign contracts and serve as leverage, reached through…
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Chennai Is Not an Accident
X.T.M observes that Chennai retains a non-transactional social reflex, with strangers helping unasked, and attributes it to Tamil language, Dravidian suspicion of centralisation, unstaged religious pluralism and weak chain retail,…
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Does India have a “once in a millennium chance”?
Omar Ali argues India has a rare chance to become a developed power because of its capable people, intact cultural strengths and the inherited machinery of the Raj, and that…
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Where are the old commentators
Nachiketa notes that many long-standing commenters have disappeared from the site and suggests the genomics and history enthusiasts left once Razib Khan stopped blogging.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
