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When in Bharat
A one-line note from Delhi: the writer did not know what jamun was and has now eaten it twice in a single morning.
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Why Sri Lanka keeps missing its maritime moment
A reproduced news-report extract, source not named, on why Sri Lanka, despite sitting on busy shipping lanes, remains largely a transhipment hub, with over 80 per cent of cargo moved…
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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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Poison Trees: Mythological Fiction & Hindu Values – 1: Fixing the Bow
Arkacandra Jayasimha, cross-posting a May 2026 series, answers a Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism essay on mythological fiction, arguing in part one that its reading of Marx’s ‘opium of…
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A blogging hiatus
Nachiketa says they have not posted or commented on BP for a while and will likely stay away for at least a few months unless something provokes a post.
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desi open thread
k jayas’s open thread of seven short items: the death of singer S. Janaki, Australian uranium sales to India, Modi, Rahul Gandhi’s travels, Hindu push-back over the Sutlej, urban flooding…
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The Crescent and the Trident clash over their women
X.T.M argues that the Crescent’s seclusion and the Trident’s ‘protection’ of women are unequal in statute, citing Pakistan’s Hudood Ordinances, but equivalent in structure, as the bahu-beti bachao slogan and…
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Pakistan & India as Imperial Nation States
X.T.M reports a conference claim that India and Pakistan are post-imperial states smothering small nations, does not adopt that frame, and argues that ethnicity resurges in Pakistan because Islam has…
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June Readership Numbers
X.T.M reports June 2026 traffic of just under 54,000 visits, down about twelve per cent: mostly phone and direct readers, a third from search, 0.4 per cent from AI answer…
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Reading Dawn in Delhi.
X.T.M reports Beena Sarwar’s talk at Mela Nordic’s Stockholm Partition event, tracing the end of Aman ki Asha to Sapan, a volunteer network with a minimum common agenda that bans…
