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Thoughts on the 5 Point Plan?
X.T.M quotes the Cockroach Janta Party’s five-point plan, from barring Chief Justices from Rajya Sabha seats to a 20-year ban on defectors, and strongly disagrees with the defection ban but…
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Eliminator, Not Meritocracy
X.T.M argues NEET is an eliminator, not a meritocracy, a rationing device for 1.3 lakh MBBS seats that measures stamina and family resources, yet should be kept because fragmented state…
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Open Thread: Raga the Martyr?
Open thread on 21 July in Delhi: a photograph credited to PB of Sapan News of Rahul Gandhi being carried out of a large student and youth demonstration against the…
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Best of Bharat
X.T.M ends a Delhi trip at a Para athletes event and the Lotus Temple, and reads the visit as showing what a soft but strong Indian superpower looks like.
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The Self-Confident Hindu
X.T.M asks whether a self-confident Hindu majority is a bad thing, arguing that India is a source rather than an appropriator of culture and that a confident majority held to…
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Did Modi Make India Great Again?
X.T.M, writing from Delhi, weighs what one Modi tenure has compounded against Britain’s seven prime ministers in a decade, citing India’s rise to fourth-largest economy, and asks what continuity buys…
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Titaness of Brown Blogosphere, Ruchira Paul, is no more
Ruchira Paul, founder of Accidental Blogger and one of the most gracious voices of the old Brown blogosphere, is no more. We knew each other for nearly two decades, over…
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When in Bharat
A one-line note from Delhi: the writer did not know what jamun was and has now eaten it twice in a single morning.
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Why Sri Lanka keeps missing its maritime moment
A reproduced news-report extract, source not named, on why Sri Lanka, despite sitting on busy shipping lanes, remains largely a transhipment hub, with over 80 per cent of cargo moved…
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From Indus to Exile: Notes from Delhi
The heat has gone out of the tribes, and what remains is argument. From a Delhi breakfast to Amardeep Singh’s talk on the Sindhi Nanak Panthis and the halls of…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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