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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part one of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, agrees that diversity is not India’s central problem, but questions whether the diagnosis of Partition as its trauma…
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Dhurandhar showcases Bollywood’s New Obsession: The Sexy Pakistani Villain
X.T.M calls Dhurandhar the best mass-market Bollywood film since Animal and argues it reflects Bollywood’s new formula of fetishising Pakistan as the sexy villain, familiar enough to feel intimate and…
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When was India’s Golden Age?
X.T.M asks when India’s Golden Age was, using the question to argue that India and Pakistan are not ‘equally artificial’: Pakistan rests on the long-lived Indus basin, while India is…
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Where Do Brahmins Come From?
X.T.M argues that the claim ‘all Brahmins come from Kannauj’ is wrong, since Kannauj was one medieval centre among many, and that Brahmins have several regional origins but share paternal…
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Who can speak for the “Muslim minority” of India?
X.T.M argues Indian Muslims cannot be compared with Jains, Sikhs or Buddhists, since they were once the civilisational elite of North India, and that listing successful individuals does not show…
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Cyclone Ditwah November 2025
Sbarrkum shares expert analysis suggesting Cyclone Ditwah, after two merging low-pressure systems over warm seas, may recur far more often than once in a thousand years as a warming atmosphere…
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Nehru bashing has become very old but is it ineffective yet ?
Is Nehru-bashing still working for the BJP? Prompted by Priyanka Gandhi’s December 2025 speech in Parliament.
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November Update (Traffic & Activity)
November traffic report: 76 posts and one podcast, with traffic down from about 55-65k to 33k but comments steady at 819, plus top posts, search terms and evergreen pages to…
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Why Hasn’t Pakistan Collapsed Yet?
X.T.M argues Pakistan has held together because it anchors a self-image drawn from the Lucknow-Delhi Indo-Muslim tradition, and that ownership of that legacy follows continuity among people, not territory, census…
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On the Question of Who “Owns” the Indo-Muslim Legacy
X.T.M, prompted by Sophia Khan’s piece on lost Muslim cities, argues Pakistanis with family roots in Delhi and Lucknow may fairly claim the Indo-Muslim legacy, since India itself selectively appropriates…
