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The Inward Turn: Muslim Politics in the Indian Subcontinent from the Fall of the Mughals to the Present
Omar Ali reposts, with permission, vidurascounsel’s Substack essay of 13 April 2026 on the inward turn in Muslim politics in the subcontinent. It traces the arc from Mughal decline through…
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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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At the Heart of the conflict
Nachiketa argues that debates on India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim conflict miss a core issue. Prompted by the alleged TCS Nashik conversion case, he points to reports of forced conversion and sexual…
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Brown Pandas: Rising Toward a Saffron Crescent.
X.T.M argues that India-Pakistan hostility, like that between Iran and Israel, has been generative but miscalibrated, and that Pakistan’s elite chose to dominate a poor country. The post doubts the…
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On Censorship
RecoveringNewsJunkie complains that an author bans other authors from commenting on his threads, and asks whether the blog wants dueling threads or real discourse.
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Brown Pundits: Traffic Report, March 2026
March 2026 traffic was 43,417 visits, up 3.5 per cent, with Omar Ali’s Dhurandhar review the top page at 37 per cent of traffic. The site estimates a core of…
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The Game We Can Smell
X.T.M argues that liberal-left language has become a disguise for Hinduphobia, and that Hindus are expected to love the Mughals. After the death of Asha Bhosle, the post says Partition…
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A Minute of Silence for the Schoolgirls of Minab | Chehelom, 9 April 2026
X.T.M asks readers worldwide to observe a minute of silence at 10:45am Tehran time on 9 April, the Chehelom of 165 people, mostly schoolgirls, killed in the 28 February bombing…
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The Forty-Day War: Pakistan Saved the World?
On Pakistan acting as the bridge between Tehran and Washington to end the Forty-Day War, and why the author thinks this should have been India’s role.
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Ranbir as Lord Ram: The Indus Paradox
The man cast as Maryada Purushottam, the ideal Hindu man, the conscience-keeper of a civilisation, descends from Prithviraj Kapoor of Peshawar; a Hindu Pathan (his kinsman Anil Kapoor states on…
