Migration and diaspora
South Asians abroad and migration.
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A Pakistani Hindu is not content but is Content
X.T.M argues that social media rewards rarity: a Hindu in Pakistan or a Jew in Iran becomes a story, while the same people in India or Israel are absorbed into…
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Liberal college bastions are taking body blows
Indosaurus recounts the reported plagiarism affair around Cambridge professor Jason Arday, compares it with Claudine Gay’s ousting at Harvard, and asks whether Indians and Pakistanis back progressive causes abroad yet…
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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…
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The Pakistani Voice That Isn’t in the Room
X.T.M relays BB’s observation that Pakistan’s case at BP is argued almost wholly by people abroad, while India is argued by residents. The note argues the case is untested rather…
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Caste & British Pakistani Grooming Gangs
A thread on Pakistan and North India, then caste among British Pakistanis, ending with a pointed question linking a Mirpuri-origin community to child sexual abuse cases in Rotherham and Oxford,…
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The Diaspora Saved The Mullahs. Pahlavi Helped.
X.T.M reports a BP live call with an Iranian guest, Farhad, who argues Reza Pahlavi’s 2022 intervention saved the Islamic Republic. The post says it does not endorse this and…
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She carried an entire civilization in her hands
Sharing a Hindu American Foundation Mother’s Day note, the authors argue that Hinduism resists imperial pressure by evolving rather than hardening as they say Islam does, and that a civilisation…
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Comparing the 2020 and 2026 open-thread arguments over Mughlai food, the post says the debate is a ritual re-enactment of Partition, while diaspora restaurants, constrained by no pork, no beef…
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Why is Pakistani Culture obsessed with Policing Female Virginity?
X.T.M reflects on an overheard story of a Pakistani-origin daughter in Europe and the murders of Sana Cheema and Qandeel Baloch. The post argues that policing a daughter’s body remains…
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When Even Jainism Becomes a Hack
X.T.M argues that students falsely claiming to be Jain at Stanford to avoid the meal plan reveal how institutions treat religion as paperwork. He says Jainism is an ethnic, mercantile…
