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What Genetics Can, and Cannot, Explain About Caste
X.T.M summarises a WhatsApp exchange between two contributors over what ancestry data can show about caste, noting that no group maps cleanly onto caste or purity, and that the real…
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15 Years of Brown Pundits: A Platform, a Posture, a Proof
X.T.M marks Brown Pundits’ fifteenth anniversary, from the naming debate of December 2010 to the first post, arguing the site survived without funding or institutional backing because it was built…
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Sanjeev Sanyal on the generational shift in India
RecoveringNewsJunkie links a long interview with Sanjeev Sanyal covering citation laundering, the portrayal of Ashoka and the ranking of Indian democracy, and finds the press-freedom rankings laughable.
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So it starts ..
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 3)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part three of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, argues India’s post-independence settlement was half-hearted on integration, letting Muslim power centres persist while dividing Hindus, and draws…
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Why Pakistani Liberals Remain a Colonised Intellectual Class
X.T.M argues that a dispute over a factual correction showed how Pakistani liberals defer to credentials such as an Oxford degree, a habit he traces to colonisation, and calls on…
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Dhurandhar Review
Omar Ali gives Dhurandhar four stars out of five, reading it as an Inglorious Basterds-style revenge fantasy rather than history, praising Akshaye Khanna’s performance and the music, and noting that…
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Why Balochistan Is Not Kashmir
X.T.M argues Balochistan should not be equated with Kashmir, which is an internationally anchored dispute through UN resolutions, treaties and wars, while Balochistan is legally an internal matter, though he…
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Pakistan Is Not About to Break Apart
X.T.M argues predictions of Pakistan’s imminent break-up are confirmation bias, since Pashtuns are integrated into the state and economy and states collapse only when elites defect, borders become porous and…
