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The god of small comments
A reader’s reply on the assembly elections thread, reposted in full, explains how Kerala’s Christians divided into sectarian groups from the pre-colonial period, including the Knanaya and older communities, and…
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The Shijrah and the Y-Chromosome
A sequel arguing that BB and Qureshi reach the same wrong conclusion on Sayyid ancestry by different routes. The post contends that Y-chromosome evidence retains paternal descent that autosomal arithmetic…
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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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India is the successor state of British India – it got independence, Bangladesh and Pakistan were formed
A Precedent post arguing that India is the successor state of British India, and that Pakistan and later Bangladesh were the states that broke away.
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Arab Fathers are not fabrications (entirely)
Answering BB’s claim that Pakistanis invent foreign fathers, the author argues South Asian Muslims are not one block: Pashtuns, Baloch, Hazaras and Sayyids carry foreign ancestry the genetic record supports,…
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India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire (and the various Sultanates)
The post argues the Republic of India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire: it holds about 70 per cent of the empire’s land, and its capitals, ruling core…
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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You Cannot Demolish His Mosque and Claim His High Culture
The post argues a civilisation cannot demolish a man’s mosque and claim his high culture too. It says elites on both sides of the 1947 line have done both for…
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Dhurandhar releasing in Japan
On Dhurandhar’s release in Japan, the author notes the appeal of Japanese film posters and Indian cinema’s push for global audiences, and argues that as Bollywood grows, foreign perceptions of…
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Gurdaspur and Siliguri: The Two Necks That Held
The post argues that Pakistan opted out of the subcontinent, and that India kept both strategic ‘necks’, Gurdaspur and Siliguri, in 1947 and 1971, so claims that India is a…
