Society, caste and identity
Caste, ethnicity, gender, family and community.
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Does the average muslim ‘dislike hindus’?
RecoveringNewsJunkie rejects a commenter’s claim that the average Muslim dislikes Hindus. The post argues that treating hundreds of millions as one mindset ignores regional and class differences, that political and…
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Op Sindoor Was Not a Pakistani Defeat: Precedents Two Days From Pahalgam
Two days from the Pahalgam anniversary, three precedents worth setting down before the narrative hardens: Sindoor was not a Pakistani defeat, the Crescent commentariat cannot keep living Western lives while…
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Pakistanis = Indian Muslims With Sovereignty?
X.T.M argues that Pakistanis are in effect Indian Muslims who gained sovereignty, and asks what it cost. The post says Partition gave sovereignty to two-thirds of the pre-1947 Muslim population,…
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India That Is Bharat: The Exceptional Uniqueness and the Dual Identity
X.T.M answers the charge that the site treats India more gently than Pakistan. The post argues India is both a seventy-nine-year-old state and a civilisation of some five thousand years,…
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Open Thread; The Archive, The Lynching, and Humanity First
Open thread noting the backtagging of the archive, then taking up a commenter’s linked report of the lynching of Suleman Khan Pathan, 20, and a debate over asymmetric condemnation of…
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Brown Pandas: Rising Toward a Saffron Crescent.
X.T.M argues that India-Pakistan hostility, like that between Iran and Israel, has been generative but miscalibrated, and that Pakistan’s elite chose to dominate a poor country. The post doubts the…
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The Game We Can Smell
X.T.M argues that liberal-left language has become a disguise for Hinduphobia, and that Hindus are expected to love the Mughals. After the death of Asha Bhosle, the post says Partition…
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nos ancêtres les Hindous
X.T.M argues that when Hindu voices retreat from comment threads, the space turns anti-Hindu rather than neutral. The post defends Hindu civilisational continuity, rejects the claim that Hinduism is a…
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The ‘Hindutva’ attack protocol
RecoveringNewsJunkie criticises a tweet reposted by Azad Essa that labelled Priyanka Chopra “Hindutva-fascist”, despite her public support for Palestine. He argues this reflects an agenda to demonise India and Hindus,…
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The Cantonment and the Clean Street: Why Pakistan’s Punjab Looks More Ordered Than India’s
X.T.M asks why Pakistan’s Punjab feels more ordered than richer India. He answers that military cantonments and DHA enclaves are governed outside city control, so the order seen on Lahore’s…
