Comment as Canon
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Open Thread: The Courtesy Guidance & the Two Factions (Majority vs. Minority)
X.T.M’s open thread describes BP’s two factions, majority and minority, and argues the Courtesy Guidance should give minority commenters latitude without letting either side provoke; the Ceasefire stays lapsed for…
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Brown, that is Bharat, Pundits
Fifteen years as the British of the blogosphere, running on an unwritten constitution; that experiment ends today. The landscape has changed since the founding. A blog that does not register…
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India’s Wealth will not turn Pakistan into East Germany
X.T.M answers a commenter’s per-capita point: scale and per-capita income measure different things, and India’s size gives it weight. But economic weight is not destiny, India has not turned Pakistan…
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The Long Dark Night for India’s Muslims
X.T.M reads a Bengal order on Vande Mataram in madrasas as a symptom of India’s Muslims being absorbed into a Hindu-Persianate mainstream. It argues Pakistan and upper-caste liberalism accelerated this,…
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The High Signal Mandate
X.T.M states the site’s creed: signal over news, with primary depth, a continental frame and the unfashionable thought, and posts that fall short will be down-posted.
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The Prussia of the Ummah
Building on RNJ’s comment that Munir’s consolidation makes a second Pahalgam unlikely, the post argues Pakistan’s army-led settlement is not a pause before collapse but a durable hybrid regime, ‘the…
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The “Prakrisation” of Hindi
Reposting a commenter’s theory unedited, the authors present FlyeDie’s argument that Hindi is the Prakrit of the modern age, caught between English and the regional vernaculars, and may be displaced…
