Open Thread
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Open Thread: What’s new?
Open Thread, 24 September 2026. Agni opens with the Tata Sons and Tata Trusts dispute, the IIT Bombay student death and its politics, the US–Iran conflict and Indian energy, Trump…
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Open thread: Geopolitics and any other interesting news
Open Thread on geopolitics and other news, 16 September 2026. It opens with gold prices, market trends and SIPs, whether AI will kill humanity within a decade, and an India–Pakistan…
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Open Thread: Zardari in (self-imposed exile). New Provinces to be made
Open Thread. X.T.M opens with a rumour that Zardari is in self-imposed exile, with Bilawal’s reported marriage as cover, and notes that Pakistan is apparently to hold a referendum on…
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Open thread: Open Season
Open Thread “Open Season”, 29 August 2026. Admin sets up a weekly, unmoderated thread for arguments, and asks whether pointless debate serves any purpose, from relitigating the Two-Nation Theory to…
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Open Thread: Nepal Floods + 20 months since Assad
Open Thread, 27 August 2026. X.T.M opens by suggesting that Middle Eastern hybrid regimes balance the great powers nimbly, while democracies such as Israel and India pursue grander foreign policies,…
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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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Regency, Not Rupture in Pakistan (Open Thread)
Open thread: X.T.M reads interior minister Mohsin Naqvi’s claim that Pakistan’s governance system has collapsed as a sign the army needs no coup, arguing that the Twenty-Seventh Amendment already makes…
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Open Thread – Iran & CJP
Open thread from X.T.M on the war in Iran and the continuing CJP protests in India, asking about Sonam Wangchuk and why the Education Minister has not resigned, with praise…
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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…