Everyone; please do not violate our rules egregiously. If moderation collapses, I will stop doing it. And if that happens, the comment boards will descend into noise very quickly. That helps no one.
The comments are growing again after a lull, which is a good sign. But it also puts real strain on time. I would rather focus on writing and commissioning strong posts than constantly firefighting threads. If you value the quality of this space, help maintain it.
If anyone would like to volunteer as a balanced and fair moderator, step forward. Not a partisan enforcer. Not a factional referee. Someone steady. I have given BB authorship privileges because Kabir, while diligent, is beginning to police too aggressively, and BB, when restrained, can bring levity without venom. That balance matters.
On a separate note, a thought. Bharat, that is, India in her most sublime and civilizational sense, possesses something like sacred geography. Rivers, mountains, pilgrimage circuits. The land itself carries immense metaphysical weight as both the home and centre of Dharma.
Pakistan, by contrast, was founded less on geography than on mission. It has an animating purpose, often framed as unifying or protecting the Ummah, ย but that is not the same thing as sacred land. One is spatial and civilizational; the other is ideological and directional. They are not equivalents, and confusion between them produces bad arguments.
Keep the debates sharp. Keep them serious. But keep them civil. If moderation fails, everyone loses.
jews have sacred purpose not pakistani hindu converts
True. India has the holiest sites of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism.
Pakistanis are Muslims but their holiest sites lie in Saudi.
They claim to be Mughals but the greatest icons of Mughal culture are in India.
Now there is a movement on Pak twitter about “Indus nationalism”.
Truly a confused people.
This is a simplification of course
In a way. But kind of hits the point.
They can never be more Muslim than Arabs, nor be more Indian than Indians.
People look at “South Asian” culture and think “Indian”.
They look at Islamic culture and think “Arab”.