Open Thread
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Open Thread- Love Jihad?
Open thread opening on interfaith marriage and ‘Love Jihad’, with a quoted view that it is conversion when only one partner shares the other’s culture, and a pointer to Dr…
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The Simpsonisation of South Asia
Open thread sharing a video the authors find interesting as an example of how ‘propaganda’ is evolving, while stating it does not reflect their views.
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Open Thread: Pakistan’s Demons are The Daughters of God
Open thread opening on Pakistan’s diplomatic gains after Sindoor, including its role in a US-Iran memo, and on whether its real problem lies in its television dramas. It quotes commenter…
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Open Thread – Assembly Elections 2026
Open thread for the 2026 assembly election results, expecting Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam to be near-certain and treating West Bengal as the key contest.
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Open Thread; the endless Argument of the Archives
Open thread marking the backtagging of the site’s 3,987 posts into one navigable archive. X.T.M reviews what it shows: Partition as a living argument, the Persianate thread, the genetics trove…
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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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Open Thread
Open thread relaying four items from Formerly Brown: arrests near Myanmar, Tamil Nadu’s election, Kerala’s fronts, and 215 new women’s seats in the Lok Sabha.
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Open Thread opened with the view that the Iran war looks choreographed and regime change is unlikely, plus a link on the Iranian regime account using the Sun and Lion…
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Iran Zamin Open Thread
Open thread for the latest Iran war news, with a preface mourning all lives lost, civilian and military, on every side.
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Open Thread: Israel Strikes Iran
Open Thread on the Israel strike on Iran: Tehran bombed, 12 or more Shia protesters killed at the US consulate in Karachi, and Shia mourning in Kargil and Kashmir after…
